Andrew writes: > > > Owing to the fulness of my Linux partition, I have bought a 1.2 Gb > harddrive. I'm intending on transfering Linux to this, leaving win95 to > fester on my old 800 Mb one. I think I'll want two partitions besides swap > for robustness and performance, but how do I divide the filesystem up? > > Can I just copy everything directly across and point LILO at > the new hard drive, or are there other issues at stake here? The new > harddrive is slaved to the old one, but LILO resides in the MBR of the > primary, right? [snip]
Paul writes: > > Hello Andrew, there are a few things you need to do first with your drive > before you can move your linux onto it. You have to partition it first, [snip] > /dev/hdb1 50megs / > /dev/hdb2 50megs swap > /dev/hdb3 1000megs /usr > /dev/hdb4 100megs /var > This is one senerio to look at. your logging is in a different partition > and / is not effected by what /var does. The other thing you could do in > this situation is make a symlink from /home (where user accounts are > stored) to something like /usr/friends/. This way user accounts are > stored on /usr partition and root won't fill up so easily. Another > alternative is the following. > /dev/hdb1 50megs / > /dev/hdb2 50megs swap > /dev/hdb3 800megs /usr > /dev/hdb4 300megs /home > This senario you have your user accounts on a different partition and your > /var is off / so your logging is in /. I don't like this way because you > have to consider how much space to give users and the only way to give it > is from your user partition. The first example I think is the best. > because your logging and user accounts are not in / and you use as much or > as little of /usr. How about this: /dev/hda2 100 Meg /home #slice off the back 100Meg of the win95 drive and Paul's first suggestion! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
