This extra hdd is mounted on /home. :) My concern is the the integrity of the filesystem and hdd driver in this case. Does a filesystem like this use the location the partition table uses? If so how big are the odds that Linux will choke on a corrupt (unknown) partition table?
I guess it's not harmful but bad style.. On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 14:46, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate > partitions is to allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a > separate /home so users with accounts on the system can't screw up > the system by filling up the disk or so that runaway log files can't > fill up / and screw things up. > > Remco van 't Veer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is the any technical reason why I should fdisk an extra IDE hdd and > > not mkfs the whole thing at ones? Apart from: "hdb: unknown partition > > table" at boot time everything works perfectly.. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > Remco -- Soviet counter-intelligence encryption social RAF sigar Ft. Bragg bomb mutageen XTC BATF colonel confidential South Africa plutonium CD
