Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Ed Greshko wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:42, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: So you think, fsck (the linux-fsck) would be able to check AND repair a solaris partition? Sorry, I answered the "general" question about a check/repair utility. The answer is, I don't know. But, if you give me a d

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Steve Phillips wrote: At 09:42 p.m. 13/10/2003, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:12, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? I've got a SPARC station running Solaris 8. They indicated UFS as the file syst

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Phillips
At 09:42 p.m. 13/10/2003, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:12, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? I've got a SPARC station running Solaris 8. They indicated UFS as the file system type. Could I read

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:42, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: > So you think, > fsck (the linux-fsck) would be able to check AND repair a solaris partition? Sorry, I answered the "general" question about a check/repair utility. The answer is, I don't know. But, if you give me a day (or so) I can put

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Ed Greshko wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:12, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? I've got a SPARC station running Solaris 8. They indicated UFS as the file system type. Could I read such a partition under Linux? I've not t

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Steve Phillips wrote: At 09:12 p.m. 13/10/2003, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Hello, what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? Sun uses UFS which (if my memory serves) is a BSD type filesystem Could I read such a partition under Linux? Yes, but be _very_ careful, and you

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Phillips
At 09:12 p.m. 13/10/2003, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Hello, what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? Sun uses UFS which (if my memory serves) is a BSD type filesystem Could I read such a partition under Linux? Yes, but be _very_ careful, and you will probably need to recomp

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:12, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: > what filesystem does solaris use? > Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? I've got a SPARC station running Solaris 8. They indicated UFS as the file system type. > Could I read such a partition under Linux? I've not tried it...but mount has UF

Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Hello, what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? Could I read such a partition under Linux? Are there some repair-tools for such filesystems? Regards Cornelius -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-l

RE: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-07 Thread Wade Chandler
Yes, linux can mount multiple fat32 partitions. Wade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KC Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions Can i partition a drive multiple times

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:39:44PM -0600, KC wrote: > Can i partition a drive multiple times? Like partitioning a FAT32 > 120gb > drive, into 3 32gb partitions, is that a possible workaround? Or can linux > only read one FAT32 parition. And do I need to install an RPM for FAT32 >

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread KC
Can i partition a drive multiple times? Like partitioning a FAT32 120gb drive, into 3 32gb partitions, is that a possible workaround? Or can linux only read one FAT32 parition. And do I need to install an RPM for FAT32 support? KC - Original Message - From: "Bo Peng" <[EM

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:54:34PM -0600, KC wrote: > > Yes. The partition size can not exceed 32G though. > What if the partition is larger than 32gb? > and is there any way around this, another file system that can have a much > larger max capacity, but still readable by windows and linux (NTFS

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread KC
IL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 7:40 PM Subject: Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:09:30PM -0600, KC wrote: > > I would like to have an external firewire drive, that both my windows and > > linux machines can read. The drive is format

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:09:30PM -0600, KC wrote: > I would like to have an external firewire drive, that both my windows and > linux machines can read. The drive is formatted with FAT32, can RH9 read > this natively? Or do i need to install an RPM or something? Yes. The partition size can not

Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread KC
I would like to have an external firewire drive, that both my windows and linux machines can read. The drive is formatted with FAT32, can RH9 read this natively? Or do i need to install an RPM or something? KC -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat

merging data in partitions - what's the procedure?

2003-10-01 Thread Canon
I'm not sure if this went through last time, so I'll re-post to make sure. Accept my appologies if this is a double-post. I have a bit of a conundrum. I installed RH9 a while back and created appropriate partitions only to find that one of them is growing low on space so I was t

RE: Mounting Drive Partitions

2003-09-30 Thread Buck
: Mounting Drive Partitions On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Buck wrote: > Now, if Linux allows me to mount Drive 0 Part 4 as /private and Drive > 0 part 4 as /backup during normal use, but then allows me to > disconnect drive 1 and replace it with drive 1 and mount

Re: Mounting Drive Partitions

2003-09-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
art 4 of the replacement drive as /backup without crashing when I > do this, all is well. But if the partitions have to be assigned a > directory name when they are formatted, I may be out of luck. Honestly I didn't quite get what you're trying to do, but you can easily mount diffe

Mounting Drive Partitions

2003-09-30 Thread Buck
ternal HDD with 4 partitions. The 4th partition is only used for experiments and temporary storage of non-important files. The machine has a removable HDD which was cloned exactly partition for partition from the internal drive. The first three partitions are not assigned drive letters rend

merging partitions question

2003-09-30 Thread Canon
Hello, I have a bit of a conundrum. I installed RH9 a while back and created appropriate partitions only to find that one of them is growing low on space so I was thinking of merging two partitions. Here's my present setup: hdb1 = /boot hdb2 = / hdb3 = swap hdb5 = /home hdb6 = /home

FW: Automatic Reconstruction for RedHat partitions

2003-09-28 Thread Trevor
the event of a software meltdown, the admin could boot up on a different boot partion and automatically run reconstuction tools (parted): http://www.gnuguy.com/linux/partedplan.gif http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ I know that many laptop makers (HP, Dell, etc.) use this to restore Win partitio

Re: Linear "RAID"? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-11 Thread T. Ribbrock
(better) ways you could do it: > >mount one partition under the other >make a symbolic link from one partition into the other > > Both of those are going to be simpler and more efficient than > RAIDing two partitions on the same disk. Efficiency as in performance is not

Re: Linear "RAID"? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-10 Thread Willem van der Walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, You can have partitions from the same disk in raid. During the Redhat training we did that when learning raid. regards, Willem On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on &g

Re: Linear "RAID"? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-10 Thread Ian Mortimer
> > Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on > > one single disk (which is what I'm after) - does anyone know more > > about this? They can be on the same disk. Likewise for LVM volumes. It's less efficient than a single large

Re: Linear "RAID"? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Thomas, > Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on > one single disk (which is what I'm after) - does anyone know more > about this? If it doesn't say it can't be done than it probably can ;-) . Same with other RAID versions, only i

Linear "RAID"? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-10 Thread T. Ribbrock
evice /dev/sdc5 > raid-disk 1 Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on one single disk (which is what I'm after) - does anyone know more about this? Cheerio, Thomas -- ==> RH List Archi

Re: Two partitions as one?

2003-09-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Thomas, > To make usage easier, it would be nice, if it was possible to mount > those two partitions as one, i.e. as a user I only see one > directory/mounting. I guess what you are referring to is linear mode (see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2). Th

Re: Two partitions as one?

2003-09-10 Thread y.poirier
uch, but that way, the large > partition I want to use for ogg vorbis gets split into two: A smaller > one before the hibernation partition and a larger one after. > To make usage easier, it would be nice, if it was possible to mount > those two partitions as one, i.e. as a user I only

Two partitions as one?

2003-09-10 Thread T. Ribbrock
artition I want to use for ogg vorbis gets split into two: A smaller one before the hibernation partition and a larger one after. To make usage easier, it would be nice, if it was possible to mount those two partitions as one, i.e. as a user I only see one directory/mounting. I seem to remember tha

RE: How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-05 Thread Wade Chandler
rsday, September 04, 2003 9:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to chage boot up partitions RH 9 Intel I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new partitions? Previously, the OS booted from /d

Re: How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Cosmo, > I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE > card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new > partitions? I assume you updated /etc/fstab, and installed your boot loader on the new partitions. The rest is a matter o

How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-04 Thread Cosmo Lee
RH 9 Intel I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new partitions? Previously, the OS booted from /dev/hda and there were partitions on /dev/hdb also. When it boots now, I see it trying to find d

How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-03 Thread Cosmo Lee
RH 9 Intel I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new partitions? Previously, the OS booted from /dev/hda and there were partitions on /dev/hdb also. When it boots now, I see it trying to find d

Re: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-14 Thread Vivek Shankar
here's what i have in my fstab : /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows1 vfat auto,owner,users,umask=000 0 0 HTH, -vivek -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Resize ext2 partitions

2003-08-14 Thread Andy Jackman
he rest of the partitions disappeared. So I quit and asked for help. Do I need to re-create the other partitions as well when I extended partition 2? Thanks in advance, Andy. Her eis the output from fdisk before and I delete and re-create partition 2 $fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for th

Re: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-14 Thread Johan Andersson
m having a few problems.. I know I can't set permissions on fat32 partitions but it's the only format that I can think of that allows me to read and write to in both winxp and linux (apart from ntfs but writing under linux is dodgy) So.. I have fat32.. and (as root) everything works fine.. b

RE: Resize ext2 partitions

2003-08-12 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Jackman > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Resize ext2 partitions > > Hi, > I'm trying to resize a partition.

Re: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-11 Thread Johan Andersson
mount I just add them to the group I specified in gid? Cheers Kel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Johan Andersson Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mounting fat32 partitions Hi! Use the options

Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-10 Thread Kelerion
Hey all.. just a quick question.. I've mounted a partition (ide4) to /mnt/filestore successfully but I'm having a few problems.. I know I can't set permissions on fat32 partitions but it's the only format that I can think of that allows me to read and write to in both winxp a

RE: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-10 Thread Kelerion
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mounting fat32 partitions Hi! Use the options umask= and gid= when mounting the filesystem. Ex. fstab entry: /dev/hdd1/mnt/filestorevfatauto,umask=007,gid=100 /Johan Andersson Kelerion wrote: >Hey all.. just a quick question.. > >I

RE: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-08 Thread Kelerion
ux 6 years and the more I learn the more I realise what little I know.. Lol Cheers Kel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Eduardo Gomez Noguera Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:55 PM To: redhat list Subject: Re: Mounting fat32 partit

RE: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-07 Thread Kelerion
ahh.. ok.. that makes sense thanks for the help :) cheers Kel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Andersson Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mounting fat32 partitions Yes, or you can

Re: Mounting fat32 partitions

2003-08-07 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 05:40, Johan Andersson wrote: > Hi! > > Use the options umask= and gid= when mounting the filesystem. > Ex. fstab entry: > /dev/hdd1/mnt/filestorevfatauto,umask=007,gid=100 > I remember I did that once and didnt work. If it doesnt work as is, then change the umas

Re: Invisible Partitions

2003-06-08 Thread Edward Dekkers
7 Jun 2003 03:53:51 -0400 From: Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Invisible Partitions Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Everyone: I have recently installed a 120 gig WD drive and it's great. I partitioned it into 4 sections. The first one is C: for Windows

Re: Invisible Partitions

2003-06-08 Thread Jerry Human
is an extended partition? Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:53:51 -0400 From: Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Invisible Partitions Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Everyone: I have recently installed a 120 gig WD drive and it's great. I partitioned it into 4 section

RE: Invisible Partitions

2003-06-07 Thread Nathan ViswaNathan
Is the 4th partition is an extended partition? Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:53:51 -0400 From: Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Invisible Partitions Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Everyone: I have recently installed a 120 gig WD drive and it'

Re: Invisible Partitions

2003-06-07 Thread Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez
Use FIPS from Windows to partition your HD --- Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello Everyone: > > I have recently installed a 120 gig WD drive and > it's great. I > partitioned it into 4 sections. The first one is C: > for Windows & > drivers, the second is D: for Windows applicat

Invisible Partitions

2003-06-07 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Everyone: I have recently installed a 120 gig WD drive and it's great. I partitioned it into 4 sections. The first one is C: for Windows & drivers, the second is D: for Windows applications, the third one is for downloads & music, the fourth is for RedHat. I downloaded the .ISO's the oth

Re: partitions

2003-06-03 Thread Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez
use cfdisk and change it space. regards --- Vij Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Guys, > > I want to use 10 gb of free space on my xp (NTFS) in > linux. > > Any suggesstions on hw to do so?? > > I was thinking using something like partition magic > to > > 1. seperate 10 gb into a partition

partitions

2003-06-03 Thread Vij Chau
Guys, I want to use 10 gb of free space on my xp (NTFS) in linux. Any suggesstions on hw to do so?? I was thinking using something like partition magic to 1. seperate 10 gb into a partition, format it and mount it as a seperate drive in linux 2. seperate 10 gb into a partition and use partitio

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Nick Lindsell
intaining UNIX servers for more than fifteen years and setting out the disk partitions is probably the most important lesson I've learnt from my peers. > > So, IMHO, YMMV :-) as you say, IMHO,YMMV. /rant,:-) ttfn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe ma

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Vidiot
>/ shouldn't really be bigger than 500mb, imho. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree. I'm currently using 423292, so 500 doesn't leave much head room. The extra space is used with logs, etc. Especially when running a server. So, IMHO, YMMV :-) MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Tim Willis wrote: I've forgotten the command line for viewing all the partitions and their sizes. df -h -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobo

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Vidiot
>I've forgotten the command line for viewing all the partitions and their >sizes. To see what is mounted, use: df To see all partitions, use: fdisk Warning, fdisk is used to modify partitions, so don't use the wrong options :-) MB -- e-mail:

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Nick Lindsell
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:42, Tim Willis wrote: > I've forgotten the command line for viewing all the partitions and their > sizes. > > Also, I think I've screwed up the partitions on my Dell server, for some > reason, / is only about 500mb. / shouldn't rea

Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Tim Willis
I've forgotten the command line for viewing all the partitions and their sizes. Also, I think I've screwed up the partitions on my Dell server, for some reason, / is only about 500mb. I don't remember setting it this way, I thought I set / to fill the rest of the free space,

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
antage do you think there is in the installer clearing all partitions on the computer, rather than just the ones on disk drives involved in the OS install? There isn't even an option in the Kickstart Configurator to do what one would want to do 99% of the time, which is to clear partitions only

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
being paranoid enough, I suppose, because in 26 years of experience doing this, I've never before seen an OS installer clear partitions on other disk drives, much less as some sort of default behavior. |>oug -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I already said "mea culpa" to the department head and she said "mea > culpa" for not backing up her computer. (Fortunately, there was nothing > particularly important on the computer.) Now it's time for Red Hat to > say "mea culpa" about having a flaw in their software and to fix it, and > fo

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread David Busby
Doug, I'm in the boat with the folks who say read the manual and such. That said I would like to let you know that in the computer world 1=1 and 0=0 and 1!=0. What that means is a phrase like "remove all partitions" means exactly that, while "remove all partions on di

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
ms, it'll > blitz /dev/hda and leave /dev/hdb alone. I never said any such thing. > Nope, not the right answer. I want it to install to /dev/hdb, and not > /dev/hda, so I need to tell it not to blitz the drives, and to install > to /dev/hdb. Right. Kickstart has an option to tell

RE: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Ward William E DLDN
> -Original Message- > From: Douglas Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "Remove all existing partitions" > > > Emmanuel Seyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
Emmanuel Seyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in > > the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that. > This is the part where I don't follow you. If partitions have not > been

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:03:25AM -0500, Douglas Alan wrote: > > It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in > the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that. This is the part where I don't follow you. If partitions have not been creat

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
ironment, isn't it? How is it > supposed to interact with you to confirm your instructions? It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that. Other improvements might be for it to put up a splash screen at the

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
Edward Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I said that I cannot imagine a case where "I would want all partitions > > on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install". Despite your > > claims, I still would never want all partitions on all disk dri

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-24 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I said that I cannot imagine a case where "I would want all partitions > on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install". Despite your > claims, I still would never want all partitions on all disk drives to be > removed during an OS install. Not for the two cases t

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Douglas Alan wrote: The point is that in those cases, kickstart's behavior would be entirely reasonable. No it wouldn't. It is never reasonable to destroy large amounts of data without being quite sure that that is what the user wants. If that were true, then 'rm -i' would be default behavior, and

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-24 Thread Douglas Alan
Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, I explicitly told Kickstart to *only* make partitions on > > the boot disk drive. It has no good reason to mess with the > > partition tables of disk drives that it is not putting partitions > > onto. > Y

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Douglas Alan wrote: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's a mighty literal interpretation of "all" when it comes to valuable data. I can't imagine any circumstance when I would want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install, 1.

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-23 Thread Douglas Alan
nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In that case, you can explicitly delete these partitions or configure the > > install program to delete these partitions for you, rather than have the > > install program *automatically* delete them for you. > looking at the kicksta

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Douglas Alan said: > In that case, you can explicitly delete these partitions or configure the > install program to delete these partitions for you, rather than have the > install program *automatically* delete them for you. looking at the kickstart docs(again never used it myself), th

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-23 Thread Douglas Alan
Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas Alan wrote: >>> I haven't used kickstart myself but I would expect it to remove all >>> partitions on all disks if you told it to remove all existing >>> partitions .. >> That's a mig

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-21 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Douglas Alan wrote: I haven't used kickstart myself but I would expect it to remove all partitions on all disks if you told it to remove all existing partitions .. That's a mighty literal interpretation of "all" when it comes to valuable data. I can't imagine any circu

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-21 Thread Douglas Alan
nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Umm, if I had, err, by chance, configured Kickstart to "remove all > > existing partitions", it wouldn't happen to remove all partitions on ALL > > disk drives, would it, and not just the boot disk drive? > I haven

Re: "Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Douglas Alan said: > Umm, if I had, err, by chance, configured Kickstart to "remove all > existing partitions", it wouldn't happen to remove all partitions on ALL > disk drives, would it, and not just the boot disk drive? I haven't used kickstart myself but I

"Remove all existing partitions"

2003-03-20 Thread Douglas Alan
Umm, if I had, err, by chance, configured Kickstart to "remove all existing partitions", it wouldn't happen to remove all partitions on ALL disk drives, would it, and not just the boot disk drive? And if it would, is there any way that I might recover them? (The ones on the ot

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
James Francis wrote: > Cannon, Andrew wrote: >> Does that apply to LVM partitions too? > For LVM, use e2fsadm. Do a man on e2fsadm. It will work flawlessly. > If you are using ext3 partitions, I would change them to ext2 first. > 1. Umount the partition. > 2. Remove th

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm suprised no-one has suggested using parted. The best way I've > found for using parted is run linux in single user mode, unmount > the /var filesystem and from the command-line run parted. > > GNU Parted is a very nice tool but I don't remember it's poss

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
Cannon, Andrew wrote: > Does that apply to LVM partitions too? For LVM, use e2fsadm. Do a man on e2fsadm. It will work flawlessly. If you are using ext3 partitions, I would change them to ext2 first. 1. Umount the partition. 2. Remove the journal, tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev// 3. Use e2fs

Re: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Sherlock
Which is why he should do the print in parted. He may be able to get assistance with the resizing on this list. The info docs have very good examples on what to do if you have hard-drive space but it's scattered around the drive. Incidently, I've found that some older versions of parted don't w

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread bollu
>From http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/upgraderoottolvm.html: "Parted doesn't understand LVM partitions [so this has to be done using fdisk]" How, by the way, it seems that parted can shrink partitions (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/). However I seem to remember having s

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread Cannon, Andrew
Does that apply to LVM partitions too? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Making Partitions Bigger? I'm suprised no-one has suggested using parted. The best way I

Re: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread bollu
I'm suprised no-one has suggested using parted. The best way I've found for using parted is run linux in single user mode, unmount the /var filesystem and from the command-line run parted. GNU Parted is a very nice tool but I don't remember it's possible to decrease partition size. W

Re: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Sherlock
ne! Oh, you'll > need to know which is your /var partition. > > Simple... if you aren't sure about parted, the info file for parted is > *really* good, with lots of examples and everything. If you don't have > this, try www.gnu.org and look at their manua

Re: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Sherlock
I'm suprised no-one has suggested using parted. The best way I've found for using parted is run linux in single user mode, unmount the /var filesystem and from the command-line run parted. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# init 1 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://li

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-18 Thread James Francis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > System is running RedHat 7.3. Below is the structure of my partitions > currently. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda6 372M 78M 275M 22% / > /dev/sda1

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-18 Thread Billy
ructure of my partitions >currently. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/sda6 372M 78M 275M 22% / >/dev/sda1 45M 8.8M 34M 21% /boot >/dev/sda5 20G 857M 18G 5% /home >n

Re: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Lundy
is running RedHat 7.3. Below is the structure of my partitions currently. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 372M 78M 275M 22% / /dev/sda1 45M 8.8M 34M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 20G 857M 18G 5

Re: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-18 Thread bollu
System is running RedHat 7.3. Below is the structure of my partitions currently. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 372M 78M 275M 22% / /dev/sda1 45M 8.8M 34M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 20G 857M

Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-18 Thread Billy
System is running RedHat 7.3. Below is the structure of my partitions currently. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 372M 78M 275M 22% / /dev/sda1 45M 8.8M 34M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 20G 857M

RE: fat32 partitions.

2003-03-11 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
proper sharing with windows and linux without hastles. -Original Message- From: Cannon, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2003 7:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: fat32 partitions. >From the Micro$oft web site: The maximum possible number of

RE: fat32 partitions.

2003-03-07 Thread Cannon, Andrew
rom: Mirabella, Mathew J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:39 PM To: RedHat List Subject: fat32 partitions. Hi all. can anyone tell me if there is a size limit to a fat32 partition. i was under the impression that they can only be 32 GB in size. is this correct? If it

Re: fat32 partitions.

2003-03-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Hi all. > can anyone tell me if there is a size limit to a fat32 partition. > i was under the impression that they can only be 32 GB in size. is this correct? > If it is possible, and if i create a larger one than that, what problems may i have? > this is so i can share data between windows xp a

fat32 partitions.

2003-03-06 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Hi all. can anyone tell me if there is a size limit to a fat32 partition. i was under the impression that they can only be 32 GB in size. is this correct? If it is possible, and if i create a larger one than that, what problems may i have? this is so i can share data between windows xp and red hat

Re: Partitions size

2003-02-26 Thread Gordon
linux in a computer with a hard disk with12GB and 256MB of memory. I want to create partitions to /boot, / (root), /var, /tmp, /usr, /home, swap. What is the best size for each one ? This computer will be a work station, not a server. I will develop applications on it. For an average home m

Re: Partitions size

2003-02-26 Thread Stefan Neufeind
ll install linux in a computer with a hard disk with12GB and > >256MB of memory. I want to create partitions to /boot, / (root), > >/var, /tmp, /usr, /home, swap. What is the best size for each one ? > > > >This computer will be a work station, not a server. I will dev

Re: Partitions size

2003-02-26 Thread LAST FIRST
/:2.5G, /usr:5G, /var:1.5G, /boot:300M, /home:900M, --- Rodrigo Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Folks, > >I will install linux in a computer with a hard disk with12GB and 256MB >of memory. I want to create partitions to /boot, / (root), /var, /tmp, >/usr, /home, sw

Re: Partitions size

2003-02-26 Thread Rodrigo Pereira
As far as I know, is good to create partitions for that directories. Example: /var is a log directory, if it is in the / (root) partition it will consume megas and megas of disk. If the disk if full and an application tries to create a log file it will halt your system. So a good strategy is to

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