Large Hard drive

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

I'll have to get back to you - shipping my wife off to her
mothers tomorrow then going camping for about a week.

Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
understand binary and those that don't.

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 6/11/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > How does one
> > > reconfigure the monitor under FC2?
> >
> >
> > xorgconfig or something like xf86config if you are using Xfree86.
> >
> >
> > > Is the card bad?
> >
> >
> > Possibly.
>
> When you say it won't open a window, exactly what do you mean?  Does
> the monitor go dark, then reappear with an error message?
>
> Under FC2, the easiest way to reconfigure the X system is to use
> "redhat-config-display --reconfigure"
>
> > > Oh, one last thing - I had a 8G hard drive in the machine and
> > > installed the 160G - I let the install do what it wanted but the
> > > only thing it put on the 8G drive was the /boot stuff, the rest
> > > went on the 160.  I'd rather have most of it on the 8G drive if
> > > possible.  Other than re-installing everything manually can I
> > > just MOVE directories over to the hda1 drive from the hdb1 drive?
> >
> >
> > No, I do not think so. There are issues with links and things that
> > won't survive a simple move command. You might want to search out 'dd'
> > commands for transferring a partition from one drive to another. Rick
> > has talked about it on this list before but I've never done it.
>
> It can be done, but it's not trivial.  We'd need to see some information
> before we could advise you.  You need to post the results of the "df -h"
> command.  It would also be helpful if you could tell us how you
> configured the drives.  Assuming you're using IDE drives, you could
> post the results of the following commands (run as the root user):
>
> 	# fdisk -l /dev/hda
> 	# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> 	# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> 	# fdisk -l /dev/hdd
>
> Also post the contents of your /etc/fstab file.  When we have that info,
> we should be able to help.
>
> > > If so can I have on the hda1 drive the directory of
> > > \home\brad\mail and on the hdb1 drive could I have
> > > \home\brad\stuff or does \home\brad.... need to be all on one
> > > physical drive?
> >
> >
> > No, the complete contents of /home/brad do not need to be one drive. I
> > mount /dev/sda1 as /home/mark/music while /home/mark is /dev/hda3. I
> > also mount NFS shares under my home account.
> >
> >
> > > If I can split the drives how does the move command work to move
> > > to a different drive
> >
> >
> > It's just a move but it will be slower since it's from one physical
> > drive to another.
>
> Actually, moving data from one drive to another is faster than keeping
> it on the same drive (fewer head seeks).
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