Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi,

This may seem like a daft question but how do you use multiple disks on a
linux system?  I tried to use two IDE drives on one of my linux boxes and
got in a right mess. The trouble seemed to be that I couldn't find a way to
spread a /usr partition across the two disks and so I finished up with one
drive holding the main bits but half empty and the other with all the
programs self installed into the /usr partition (which was all I had put on
this drive) and completely full. What was particularly annoying was that the
'main' drive was 3.4Gb and had more 'unusable' space than the 1Gb secondary
drive. In the end I got p***ed off with it and reinstalled linux (Mandrake
7.1) completely on the 'main' drive and put windoze on the 1Gb drive. It
would, however, be nice to get back to a fully linux machine with both
drives working - and maybe add another 850MB one I've got hanging about.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Bremner" <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net>
> I've just got 5 540Mb disks on their way to me now...I'll spread those
about
> and
> get the storage that way.


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