Hello. This is a query more out of curiosity than a need. I just received a 3.1GB Western Digital Caviar EIDE drive. I slapped it on as Master of the second IDE channel of my motherboard, and after a bit of messing around with the BIOS (leaving the configuration in automatic mode, but specifying LBA), Linux recognized it ok.
Fdisk didn't want to partition this disk according to my wishes. Repeatably, fdisk wanted to allocate only 1024 cylinders to a partition. However cfdisk did it just as I wanted it, and graphically. Is this a bug in fdisk? A feature? Now I have /home on a very large separate primary partition, and /usr/local on another fairly large partition. However, I linked /usr/src to the directory (in a logical partition mounted as /usr2) /usr2/src. Is there something special I can do so this is transparent to the ls and dir commands? When I type "dir /usr/src" I get a nice listing of the link, but when I type "dir /usr/src/" a listing is printed. This seems lit must be an FAQ, and I apologize, but I haven't run across it. Another possible FAQ: How many logical partitions can I have? Is it better to have logical partitions than to do the link thing? Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
