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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:32:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Subject: Re: More pondering on new HD... ;)
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote:

> > What I would like to do is add all of it to /usr
> > without losing any of the data already in that partition. 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am now considering something entirely different.
> I am thinking of just wiping everything and resinstalling. Am I nuts?
> These are my reasons:
> 
> 1) I want to upgrade to 2.2.7
> 2) I added a new hard drive and want /usr to share it
> 3) The box used to be for development and will now be strictly a server.
> 
> So anyway, if I _do_ do this, this is what I will have:
> 
> Master HD: 1.6 G
> Slave Hd: 4.3 G
> 
> Here's what I want:
> /       100 M
> swap    300 M
> /var    32 M
> /usr    5.5 G
> 
> In order to accomplish this I will need the /usr fs to span actual
> drives. Is this possible under 2.2.7?

Not unless the disks are identical.  I'd suggest creating /usr with the
remaining space on the 1.6GB then create /usr2/ and dedicate the 4.3G
to it.  Symlink /usr/local/ and whatever else you want onto /usr2.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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