Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

You should've put /use on the big one. On a single disk system, /use
should be bigger than / unless you have /home /var etc on it.

don't forget /usr contains /usr/X11, /usr/share, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and
so on! It should be pretty big.

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> 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
> --
> 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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