Re: Partition Help

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 08:38:19AM -0500, Information ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > I cross posted this, not sure who may have the answer. In general, don't cross-post. > We had an ISP install Debian Potato on an HP box, the HD is a 20 gig. > We installed most 3rd party apps such as mySQL

Re: Partition Help

2001-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "information" there are varying schools of thought on partitions... - i like / to be as small as possible... - i like partitions for /, /tmp, /var, /usr, /opt and than worry about backups of /etc and /opt only ( /opt aka /home ) - "system stuff" is

Re: Partition Help

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Wagner
So right now everything is on the / partition? Then what you want to do is blow away that huge unused partition and make partitions for atleast /tmp /var /home. /usr if you want plus the swap. You need to size out how much room each of those dir trees is going to need. Then take the box offline

RE: partition HELP

2001-02-13 Thread Petr Danek
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while > attempting to partition a second hard drive. > > I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that > drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict,

Re: partition HELP

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while > attempting to partition a second hard drive. > > I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that > drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict,