Filesystem fun

Mon, 26 May 2003 11:36:04 -0700 (MST)

My system looks like this (although none of the mounting has been done):
hda1: 3  gigs ext3  mounted at /
hda2: 6  gigs vfat  empty
hda3: 20 gigs ext3  mountes at /home
hda4: .5 gigs swap  swap

It is a laptop so I only have one hd and adding a raid controller, although
something that I think that they should do on laptops, is not an option. I
have already backed up everything so if I get a mushroom cloud it is not the
end of the world.

#man parted 
here I come!

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Entelin wrote:

> What you want is the program "parted"
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/ . Backup your data before you
> use it. However if I were you I would either redo the whole hard drive
> or take that 6 gigs, repartition it and mount it on /usr and /var
> depending on your use. 
> 
> My guess is that your hda2 is mounted at / correct? and you dont have
> anything split up anywhere? If thats the case I would take that and
> split it into a .5 gig partition that you mount at /var, and take the
> remaining 5.5 and mount it on /usr.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I typed a bunch of stuff below this line before I realised you were only
> using two partitions not two hard drives. However I will keep it there
> as it might be useful to someone.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> You would need to configure RAID level 0, you can do that eather with a
> hardware controller (which you probably dont have) or linux software
> RAID. I have personaly never done it because when I have wanted to do it
> its always been with a hardware raid controller. However keep in mind
> that RAID 0 will decrease your reliability due to the fact that if you
> loose one drive your whole system is hosed.
> 
> For info on RAID goto www.tldp.org there are numerous documents there on
> the subject.
> 
> However under linux you normaly don't need to do this like you are
> saying because you can simply mount the additional data in a different
> location to free up that space on your other drive.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 10:40, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> > More fun from me on filesystems. I am trying to ditched vfat, but as i do not
> > have another unix box in the house and do not have the first clue about how to
> > get samba working (that will wait for another day) I am copying my 6 gigs of
> > stuff into a vfat partition, and then copying it into a ext3 partition.
> > 
> > How do I get me hda2 (ext3, 20 gigs) to eat my hda3 (vfat, 6 gigs) so that it is
> > one big hda2 (ext3, 26 gigs)?
> > 
> > Or would this be easier with reiser or xfs?
> > 
> > Thanks for any possible help...
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