Re: Shuffling drives
William T Wilson said:
> Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use
There is that, I suppose... The current hda is an older 2.5 G Western
Digital drive while hdb is a 6 G Quantum Fireball UDMA. I'm assuming that
I'd get better performance out of the Fireball if it were drive 0.
> your new space on /dev/hda for home directories, /usr/local, a potato
> install, or something. Your kernel won't be upset if it stays on
> /dev/hdb.
Actually, once I wipe Windows, I'm planning to mount the drive under
/mmdata/audio/mp3... (Oops! Bad idea... I just checked and I've already got
3.25 G of MP3s... Guess it goes somewhere else after all...)
Now if I really wanted to make the effort of doing it right, I'd swap that
drive for my other machine's mostly-empty 8 G drive. But that one is
currently mounted as / and I don't particularly care to bother with moving a
root partition to a different drive.
> It should work, but you will have to boot off a floppy disk to redo
> lilo.conf and LILO.
Really? I'd think I could just add another entry to lilo.conf for Linux on
hda, rerun lilo to install it, and I should be fine. (Just so long as I
leave the current entries intact so I can move the drive back to hdb if
something goes wrong, of course.)
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