I have recently bought a new hardisk. aside from the vast new spaces now available to me, I have a couple of questions.
1.
I partitioned the disk to segments (copied my old system over instead of reinstalling - worked great). /usr resides on a different partition. I have a couple of programs that install into /opt, however. I did not want them to share filesystem with /, and I did not want to open a new partition for them (space fragmentation, and never mind that I have over 40GB of unpartitioned space in case I need them, and that I have data that used to fit into an 11GB partition now sitting on 60GB).
What I did was to create a directory called /usr/opt, and mount it with "mount --bind /usr/opt /opt". Now here's the question - is there a way to put such mapping into /etc/fstab, so it will be performed automatically on each boot? I know I can do that with boot scripts, but I rather have all partition information into one place. Is there possibly a way to use some mount option instead of a mount command line option?
2.
On boot, I get the following message:
"Assuming 33MHz bus. Use idebus=xx to override". I traced it to the ide-core module. As my new disk is ATA133 (my IDE is only 100, but let's not be petty), I want to use full speed. I tried putting "options ide-core idebus=100" into /etc/modules.conf. I can confirm that the initrd image has that option, but I still get this line during boot. I tried passing it as a kernel command (append in lilo.conf) - no juice.
These are two questions, which are pretty unrelated - should I at all be worried about this? It seems to me like ide-core uses some temporary driver until the proper driver, piix, is loaded. Is this message still relevant when my system is up? Is there any way for me to confirm this?
The second question is how do I pass this parameter. Even if it doesn't matter, it annoys me when something tells me "use this paramter", and goes on to say so even after I have /used/ that parameter.
And here is one last question, to make my couple of questions a nice round 4 - how do I check which PIO mode my IDE is using? hdparm has an option to set PIO, but not to check what it is. I tried using hdparm's benchmark with the various settings, and could spot no difference whats o' ever. Still...
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
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