Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Peter Wintrich
you must have a boot partition comlete into the lower 1024 cyl. On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone > here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. > > i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you > > might break things. > > which is? See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > i've had bad luck in the past with non primary partitions. i try and avoid > them w

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
> I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you > might break things. which is? > I don't recall what the limit is, but with a large partition that may > contain many small files, you're likely to run out of inodes. And that's > no fun. I'd suggest breaking up var into

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:26:40PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone > here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. > > i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i > like to keep everyth