Re: [Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:42:00AM -0000, Ian Wright wrote:
> Hmmm, Ican see from this why networking is so important to linux/unix - once
> the machine's set up its virtually impossible to expand it and add on extra
> disk capacity without starting afresh and reformatting everything! Must be
> easier and less disruptive to simply add another machine onto the network.

No, don't say that. It's easy to put new stuff onto an existing system,
or at least it is possible. Just try adding disks to Windows when your
C: drive is getting full. All you have to do to add a disk to a linux
machine is to choose a mount point, move all the existing stuff from
that mount point onto the new disk, and then to mount it. So, for example,
if your /usr  partition is getting full all you have to do is to put
some new partitions under /usr. You have /usr/X11 on a seperate disk, 
or /usr/local (those are the two biggies on my machine). 

A.D.

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