So the two disks are the only IDE devices in that system (no cd drives or
tape drives)? Just making sure.. some people screw it up and pair CD
drives with hard disks (which is a major no-no).. and the faster disk (be
there one), the one with the / partition, should be master.
If you'll never have more than just the two disks in that box, then giving
them seperate interfaces was a good idea.. speeds things up.
Back to your question.. can you do partitioning without rebooting. Yes,
unless you're touching the / partition, in which case, you'll prolly need
a special boot disk.. but if you did that, then you're better off going
back, redoing the install, and do it custom (provided you've aquired
enough know-how to do it yourself)... 15MB for /boot is bloated.
Eh.. I'm about to fall asleep so I'll let the others give you the
low-down.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> When I installed RH I let it take care of my partitioning for me. I have 2 matching
>hard drives (13 GB, I think) but the RH installer only use 15 MB of one (/dev/hdc1),
>for /boot. Everything else it put on the second drive. That's pretty wasteful and I'd
>like to make a /dev/hdc2 for storage. But I'm afraid if I alter the partition table I
>won't be able to boot any more :-(
> Oh and yes, /dev/hdc is the master drive (my fault, I switched the primary and
>secondary IDE cables around before the install and didn't notice until after I
>finished the install).
>
> Does anyone know if I can add a partition and still be able to boot? I suspect so,
>at least after running /sbin/lilo again, but I can't mess up our server.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JW
>
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