[Sheflug] Partitioning/486DXs and P75s.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====

>   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

 This is basically I different take on mounting the directories on different
disks, without the hassle of partitioning.
 Mmm. Hadn't thought of this one.

 Baz.

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