Re: Partitioning hard disk
Oh..so then using the md driver is the only choice if I split /usr?
Michelle
Michelle Maria Coelho
Department of Computer and Information Science
Purdue School of Science
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, Rob 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.
>
> Not quite, because then what would you call the *real* /usr (since the name
> /usr is already taken by a symlink ;)
>
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