On Friday 27 August 2004 16:23, BJ Tracy wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > SNIP > Thanks Hoyt but I'm still a little confused. From your response you > have one large hard drive ( I think that is what I see ). Yes. > > I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and the other two well > not sure. If not sure means not mounted then likely they have not been defined in Mount Point. > > My question is: If I go into Mount Points and go to each hard drive > and choose the partition size and define it what should they be ? > /var another /home ..... just what I'm not sure. I have all this > space and it's not showing up usable. Do not make duplicate partitions(two with the same name). > > Do I need a swap file on all three hard drives? No. > > > > Also do I need a swap on all three drives? > > > > > > I have gone thru all my books and the net and nothing really > > > talks about multiple hard drives. > > > > > > I'm really confused now on what to do. > > > Thanks for all your help in advance, > > > bj > > SNIP > Hoyt, > Are you using the DiskDrake tool to do this? The reason I'm askin is > that /music is not an option neither is /backup. > I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. If you use Mount Point to define your part's then they will be mounted. > Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 If you delete all parts and start with all three disks clean then hda should be the first disk and the first part can be called anything you want normally '/boot' or '/' but anything you want. Windows even. > thru 12 ? Let mount point worry about the part # it knows more about that than you and I both put together. You might want to put a swap near the begining for easy and more rapid access. > > > I went through this exercise a while ago and got a lot of > > suggestions from which I developed a scheme. It proved to be > > somewhat too generous and if I had to do it again I would set > > things closer to the used col. I am not going to give any advice > > but will because I am sending you my df. Alter it to your needs: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 > > 2.9G 123M 2.7G 5% / > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 > > 18G 4.7G 12G 28% /backup > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > > 66M 11M 53M 17% /boot > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 > > 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /home > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 > > 34G 26G 5.9G 82% /music > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 > > 7.7G 406M 7.0G 6% /tmp > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 > > 20G 5.9G 13G 33% /usr > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 > > 9.5G 207M 8.8G 3% /var > > I have installed everything that looked interesting so in my case > > reseting the part's to used would be sufficient.
-- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org
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