I have just acquired a nice big PATA disk and am now faced with the job of
deciding how to partition it. I actually have two questions and I would be
grateful for any thoughts.
The current disk is a 40GB 133MHz one with 1MB cache.
The new one is 250GB, 133MHz with 8MB cache.
The reason for the
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:11:55 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume
> across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks
> are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate
> my old 40GB disk and
On Thursday 20 April 2006 00:46 Neil Bothwick was like:
> > Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume
> > across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks
> > are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate
> > my old 40GB disk
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:11:55PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote
> The questions I have are:
> 1. What file system should I use for shared storage and scratchspace between
> the two OSs?
> 2. Would it be feasible and worthwhile to stripe a linux scratchspace volume
> across both disks?
>
> QUESTI
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:05:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Howsabout using FAT32 (aka vfat) for the data partitions that need to
> be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Both Windows and Linux can read
> and write easily to vfat.
FAT has a 4GB file size limit under Windows, 2GB under Linux, whic
On Sunday 23 April 2006 03:00 Neil Bothwick was like:
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:05:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > Howsabout using FAT32 (aka vfat) for the data partitions that need to
> > be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Both Windows and Linux can read
> > and write easily to vfat.
>
> FA
1. install the windows ext2/3 driver.2. install rfsd (http://rfsd.sourceforge.net) to access reiserfs partitions.
An alternative for accessing in read-only mode Linux drives is Total Commander's Ext2+Reiser plugin. Ext2 and ext3 work fine. Never tried ReiserFS.
"Plugin to open Ext2 and Reiser fi
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