Filesystem fun

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 27 May 2003 09:22:30 -0700


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 gi=
gs 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 t=
hat 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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Logical Volume Management can also help here.  It is used to make
multilpe partitions/drives work as one filesystem.

Self-plugging article: http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3D5957

George
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