On 02:52 15 Dec 2002, Robert Canary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I am trying to bring up a new machine. It has two 68G scsi. When I did
| an install I let RH Install do its own thing and set the partitions the
| way it want to. However, the "/" directory is at 100% full. And now I
| have problems. I reboote the machine, but now Xwin will not start, says
| it find the fixed fonts, however, I run the XConfigurator and it runs
| fine and even starts Xwin.
The font server may not be up, or may not be able to make its UNIX domain
socket. Sounds like / is too small, or you've put some stuff in it which
it shouldn't have. Can you post the output of this command:
df -lk
| But anyway, when I do an fdisk of the sda I see
| sda1 = Linux
| sda2 = Extended
| sda5 = Linux
| sda6 = Linux
| sda7 = Linux -> 265041 blocks (units= sectors 1 * 512 bytes)
|
| The install put the sda7 as "/".
That's ok. A little surprising, unless you have a /boot partition (which
I don't bother with for pure linux machines -- no windows or other OS --
or if I'm using grub as the boot loader).
| And I have no idea what to do with this LABEL thing in the fstab. That
| will another question later.
It's a string written into the partition so that it can be
identified. Historicly, if you inserted another drive such that it was
found before one of the old one, the driver device names would skip
around. Eg I presume you have sda and sdb. Suppose they had SCSI ids
0 and 3 respectively, and you stuck in a third with id 2. It would be
found second (because the bus scan goes in id order) and be sdb, and
your old sdb would now be sdc.
The upshort of that is that the lines in your fstab would then be wong,
and some pain ensue if you forgot to plan ahead.
The LABEL stuff is a new fangled scheme to find the right partitions
even if their device names have changed.
| Where is sda3 and sda4?
The core PC partition table of yore had only 4 slots, meaning at most
4 partitions. When that became constraining the format was extended
to invent an "extended" partition, inside which more partitions could
be placed, getting past the limit of 4.
Now, the first 4 slots are sda[1-4]. Sda2 is the extended partition,
and all the others inside it could from 5 onwards. So don't worry -
it's just an artifact of only your boot partition being a so-called
"primary" partition. All the others are not "primary", and hidden inside
the extended partition, hence their numbers. No space has been wasted.
This complication is irrelevant for your system, but if your were
multiboot with windows it would matter because windows has some fetishes
about primary partitions.
Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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