Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-09-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 17:45, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:23:11 -0400 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 thru 12 ? People's mount schemes are based on their personal needs experience. I think these schemes have been

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:22, BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Yes one 120GB. Here is what I

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
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

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:26, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Here is what I have then I will ask for advice / help. My new hard drive has /

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
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 ). I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and the other two well not sure. My question is: If I go

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread cdrack
Hi BJ. In my opinion the size of each partition are given acord the use you intent to give and of course the size of youre disk. i.e. if you have let's say a 80 Gb Hdd. then if youre computer is just for personal usage... the Mandrake Linux Normal instalation will use a partition named / wich

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread charlie
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:26 am, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 27 August 2004 04:22 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Here is what I have then I will

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 27 August 2004 03:45 pm, charlie wrote: | On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:26 am, BJ Tracy wrote: | Hello All, | | Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. | | Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and | Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 August 2004 15:44:03, cdrack wrote: Nice answer. Not entirely accurate but nice. Hi BJ. In my opinion the size of each partition are given acord the use you intent to give and of course the size of youre disk. i.e. Close enough

[newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I found. My desktop has three hard drives and I can

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:45, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I