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Re: q ad migrating IDE -> SCSI, partition layout



On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 23:10:09 +0200, Joost Kooij writes:
>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
>> So, basically, I want the system to reside on SCSI and the 
>>  not-so-valuable data on IDE. Does something like
>> 
>> SCSI:
>> sda1 /boot   25 MB
>> sda2 /      100 MB
>> sda3 /usr  1200 MB
>> sda4 /var   840 MB (/tmp -> /var/tmp)
>> 
>> IDE:
>> hda1 /home ~5 GB, salvaging current hda1 - hda7
>> hda8 /mp3  19 GB, current hda8[0]
>> 
>> seem like a reasonable scheme?
>
>It makes more sense to put /usr on the ide disk and /home on
>scsi, but that is details.

Hmm, the IDE-disk may be failing. But I deem /usr more valuable than
 /home (who cares about bookmarks et al? I do, but that´s a whole lot 
 easier to backup than /usr...)

>> 0: And, regarding the IDE-disk: Is this possible _without_ losing the
>>  data on the current /mp3 (hda8)? Eg, deleting hda1-7, re-creating a 
>>  large hda1, ?cause I don?t have any means to backup 15 GB and I surely 
>>  don?t want to re-convert my whole cd-collection to mp3...
>
>Probably only available in testing and unstable:
>dpkg -p ext2resize

I´ll check it out once I´m sober again ... ;-)     Tnx!

cheers,
&rw
-- 
-- find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
-- su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
-- for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done
-- - AYBABTU, sysadmin-version
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