Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

["Graham Cox" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Wright" <Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.


> Thanks Baz,
>
> I'll have a look at the RAID howto, it's not something I thought about
> before. You're right that I did really want to spread one partition across
a
> couple of disks. I don't know whether there may be another way around it
by
> linking things or something but, when you install a program using a RedHat
> style .rpm, it seems to put everything on the /usr partition. Presumably
if
> you subsequently move any of this stuff about to other partitions it will
> cock things up so, if you want to run a lot of different programs like I
do
> when I'm trying to sort out what does what, the /usr partition soon gets
> full up.

   There's one method that seems to work fine, in that I've been doing it
for a while on a small computer and haven't had any problems with it. I have
an old 486 that I use as a server for my home network, and I've been adding
some internet server software to it. When I added an NNTP server to it I
also added a new hard disk, so it's now got a 500Mb and an 800Mb in it.
Because the 500 was running out of space, and I didn't want to move the
whole of /usr over to the 800 because it would be easier to just start
again, I simply moved some parts of it over and symlinked it into the
correct places, so that for example /usr/src is actually a symlink to
/var/other/src. I've been running this for about 6 months now, about 2-3
months with this setup, and haven't had any problems with it.

It's just an idea that I know worked for me, so I thought it may be worth a
try. HTH

--
Graham


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