Re: large disk woe under debian installation
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On Wednesday, 10.11.2004 at 09:52 +0000, michael wrote:
> The 2.4 CD set doesn't support the 250Gb HD. I am reluctant to go
> unstable for my server. Anybody else help? Specifically, can I just
> plow ahead with ''woody'' on the 137Gb it does see and then upgrade
> kernel to a stable version that will see 250Gb and then partition the
> remainder? (And if not, why not?) Cheers, Michael
This is what I did - and will work so long as your ROOT partition is not
going to be bigger than 137GB. I wanted most of my disk space to be
used as the /home partition.
1. Install Woody as normal, making only a small root partition for the
installation (I did 9GB for / and 9GB for /var I think);
2. Download or build a more recent kernel (apt-get install
kernel-image-...) - anything past 2.4.20 has lba48 support for > 137GB
disks. Debian packages of earlier kernels may have this support
backported, but you can get more recent kernels out of Woody directly;
3. Reboot - you now have lba48 support;
4. Partition your disk - i.e. add the new, large partition for /home;
5. Format this new partition and add it to /etc/fstab ...
Dave.
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