Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] adding a new hard disk
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Phil Just used dumpe2fs to check up on my last post. I must be mis-understanding the yast output. Yast, Adjustments of installation, Set target partitions/filesystems, shows Blocks and Inodes. I read the Inodes as the Block size. WRONG! Dumpe2fs shows that all the partitions are, in fact 1024, which is what I had formated them to. So, to correct my last post, use Yast. It does it correctly. There is no column in yast to show what the block size is and if you want to check the block size, dumpe2fs will show it (plus a bunch more). Sorry for the confusion. wayne Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] adding a new hard disk Date: Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 11:20:25AM -0500 In reply to:wtopa@ix.netcom.com Quoting wtopa@ix.netcom.com(wtopa@ix.netcom.com):
Phil I would suggest that you use Yast to add the new disk to fstab and to partition it. I tried to add a partition WITHOUT yast and it screwed up the reboot. There may be a trick to avoid yast but I see no reason to find it. Yast does it all anyway.
HTH
wayne
Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] adding a new hard disk Date: Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 09:03:09PM -0900
In reply to:phillip mannie
Quoting phillip mannie(phil@deepthought.iao.net.suse.de):
It's time to add a little room to my S.u.S.E. 5.0 machine. I'm adding a Fujitsu 1.7Gb EIDE drive (which formally contained some wincrap and a couple of Red Hat partitions). I can mount the LINUX partitions, so I believe that the physical installation is working. I was just about to run (as root) fdisk /dev/hdb, create a partition or maybe 2, format and add the new partition(s) to the fstab when it occured to me that perhaps I should be using some S.u.S.E. provided tool for this.
I didn't see anything obvious in YaST, so my question would be ought I just do this by hand (as it were), or does S.u.S.E. provide some preferred tool for preparing new HD space on a running system? Any pitfalls anyone has encountered with this seemingly simple operation?
BTW, for what it's worth, I've used SCO, IRIX 5.3, Slackware, Red Hat and Caldera, but I seem to be sticking with S.u.S.E. for personal (and increasingly, for business) use. SCO is rock solid and free for personal use (though hardly so for commercial projects). IRIX is also a fine system (if you happen to have MIPS boxes). Slackware seems to run on just about any hardware (it's running right now on a 386 4Mb system on the other desk). Red Hat is easy to use and I like rpms a lot.
To make a long story short, I have yet to see a *bad* LINUX distribution and any LINUX is twice the OS of its direct M$ counterpart. I'll confess that YaST confuses me a bit, but not enough to prevent me from installing the system I want (though it takes me a couple of tries, even after having installed 5.0 several times). I like the S.u.S.E. window managers, X servers and choice of application and utility software. I like the configuration update utility (though it's not perfect and will overwrite your carefully crafted .~rc files if you don't take care). I have nothing bad to say about any LINUX distribution I've tried, but I'll be sticking with S.u.S.E. for a while.
TIA for any new HD advice, phil
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