Hi all, Thanks to all the excellent help I have gained from this mailing list I now have my second hard drive up and running and mounted as /home. Special thanks to Anders, Dylan and Jerry. Apologies also to Anders. I totally forgot (in my haste to get my second drive working) to use the XFS filesystem. It is currently using ext2, although now thanks to everyones help I can always set about changing this. One last question I do have though, is why does my second hard drive show as having 69.6 GB out of 73.4 GB (6% used), while my primary drive shows 71.7 GB out of 73.6 GB (3% used) free disk space? The second drive only has about 60 odd MBs of info on it at present. Is it something to do with the filesystems used? As I have said, the second drive is currently formatted ext2, while the primary drive is resierfs I believe. As usual, any advice is most appreciated. -- David .~. / ^ \ /| |\ simply change .\ /. .^.
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 3:11 pm, David James Pettifor wrote:
One last question I do have though, is why does my second hard drive show as having 69.6 GB out of 73.4 GB (6% used), while my primary drive shows 71.7 GB out of 73.6 GB (3% used) free disk space? The second drive only has about 60 odd MBs of info on it at present. Is it something to do with the filesystems used? As I have said, the second drive is currently formatted ext2, while the primary drive is resierfs I believe.
You can always change an existing file system from ext2 to ext3. Rather than
post the details, here is a URL that explains it:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm
A couple of caveats. You cannot convert an already mounted file system, so
if the file system cannot be unmounted, just boot a standalone system, such
as the SuSE install Cd, and boot into rescue, or any other Linux standalone
boot. Also, do not forget to make the appropriate changes in the fstab.
--
Jerry Feldman
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 20:28, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 3:11 pm, David James Pettifor wrote:
One last question I do have though, is why does my second hard drive show as having 69.6 GB out of 73.4 GB (6% used), while my primary drive shows 71.7 GB out of 73.6 GB (3% used) free disk space? The second drive only has about 60 odd MBs of info on it at present. Is it something to do with the filesystems used? As I have said, the second drive is currently formatted ext2, while the primary drive is resierfs I believe.
You can always change an existing file system from ext2 to ext3. Rather than post the details, here is a URL that explains it: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm
A couple of caveats. You cannot convert an already mounted file system, so if the file system cannot be unmounted, just boot a standalone system, such as the SuSE install Cd, and boot into rescue, or any other Linux standalone boot. Also, do not forget to make the appropriate changes in the fstab. -- Jerry Feldman
Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243 Thanks for that Jerry. Do you know why there is a difference in the disk sizes reported? -- David
.~. / ^ \ /| |\ simply change .\ /. .^.
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 3:43 pm, you wrote:
Thanks for that Jerry. Do you know why there is a difference in the disk sizes reported? I can only assume that the reported disk size does not include the file system overhead. -- Jerry Feldman
Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243
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