[580] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Merillat)
Sat Sep 2 01:30:02 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 21:38:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dan Merillat <drm89121@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>" <harik@chaos.sub.ucf.edu>
Reply-To: drm89121@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
To: Jason Duerstock <jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu>
cc: Evan Willett <willett@coam.usm.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9509010054.B4500-0100000@kendall.mdcc.edu>
On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Jason Duerstock wrote:
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 00:40:06 -0400
> From: Jason Duerstock <jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu>
> To: Evan Willett <willett@coam.usm.edu>
> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: 9GB drives
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Evan Willett wrote:
>
> > I have 9GB seagate, which works fine with the 1542CF, but any SCSI
> > supported by linux should work.
> >
> > With fdisk v2.0a, I'm only able to use 8064 cylinders(about 8.3GB) of
> > the 8669 cylinders. Any ideas on utilizing all of the disk space?
>
> If you're going to use the entire drive for linux, I don't see why you
> can't just "mke2fs /dev/sdb" and use the whole thing without a partition
> table. I posted a message about it before and nobody came up with any
> reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be done.
OUCH! Yes, we did.
/dev/wholedrive should not be used for a boot partition: other stuff will
look at it and do bad things.
besides, 1 9 GIG partition???
to be smart, / should be 20 meg, with only boot/init stuff in it. I
currently have root, and a /altroot (another 20 megger) So if one
dies, altroot saves my ass. A good usage of 20 meg.
/usr should be on its own, and probably can be set RO most of the time,
/var and /home are the only 2 main dirs that need to be written to.
besides, how will ext2fs hold up to 1 9 gig partition? how would you
fsck it? The only way would be booting off a floppy, and then going
out to lunch (it'll take forever... none of it can be marked clean)
personally, I'm swapping to a plan that has a /tmp dir as a ramdisk,
and linking any root files that need to be written to there.
saves a lot of wear and tear on the root partition, leaving it RO all
the time.
Anyway, to sum it all up: Yes, you need to partition your drive,
especally if you are running a major machine (and a 9 gig drive dosn't
usually go on a home system...) simply to make that machine managable.
I suppose if you were running linux on a 150-200 meg drive, all to itself,
you could run it on /dev/hda, but *shrug* That would require a swapfile
instead of a swap-partition, which would be slower.
>
> Jason Duerstock
> jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu
> jasond@mdcs2.cs.mdcc.edu
>
chaos@dynamic.ip.don't.reply Guess what? I really _DO_ speak for my
Dan Merillat / Harik A'ttar system. And if you share my opinions,
drm89121@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu you should seek professional help.
Finger for my PGP Public Key PGP-mail prefered, thank you.
>
