Re: Partitioning hard disk

[Michelle Coelho <mcoelho@purdue.edu>]

Yes, thanks..Someone suggested using the md driver. I guess either 
alternative will work, huh?

Michelle

Michelle Maria Coelho
Department of Computer and Information Science
Purdue School of Science

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On Sun, 16 May 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:

> ~> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks:
> ~> /                hda1     40MB
> ~> swap       hda2     8MB
> ~> /usr          hda3      68MB
> ~> swap       hdb1      8MB
> ~> /usr          hdb2      250MB
> ~> 
> ~> where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk.
> ~> Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2
> ~> partitions or will X complain?
> 
> I think you could split /usr across two different partitions by making
> the second a symlink to the first, eg. name hdb2 partition something
> like /usr2 and make it a symlink to /usr.
> 
> Horacio
>