Re: Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Ooooh A new HDD! Date: Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 10:20:19AM +1200 In reply to:Michael Beattie Quoting Michael Beattie([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > As for making it appear as part of the origina

Re: Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-28 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > I dont know how to explain myself better! I already know of this > method, > > (thanks for the step by step, I didnt know how to do it..) but what I > > meant was that there was something about "multidis

Re: Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As for making it appear as part of the original drive, that is what > > > /etc/fstab is for. > > > > Yes, but I meant this: > > > > current: 195MB > > new: 106MB > > > > add: 301MB > > > > so that it appears the drive now has 301 MB. I

Re: Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-27 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Ooooh A new HDD! Date: Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 10:19:40PM +1200 In reply to:Michael Beattie Quoting Michael Beattie([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > It greatly depends on what you do.

Re: Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > It greatly depends on what you do. cd to / as root and try the following: > > du -s /usr > > du -s /var Okay, this was handy, but I have a logistical problem now... :) here is some info: Size (MB) Path 22 /usr/X11R6 17 /usr/bin

Re: Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-26 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > I have no idea how to split up my stuff... should I put /usr on it? or > what? I have no idea... My suggestion is that you put "/home" and/or "/usr/local" on the new disk. It's always nice to have this "non-debian" stuff on a seperate disk when upgra

Ooooh A new HDD!

1998-03-26 Thread Michael Beattie
I have aquired an old yes old... HDD, only 106 MB, but I am a poor student, and cant afford to splash out on SCSI and 4.whatever Gigs, so I want to out it in as an extra linux drive. I currently have a 1.2 Gig (IDE :) ) with two DOS partition's, (under 509.9 MB to beat slack space) one 509MB t