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Quote:>I'm currently moving linux to my secondary drive, an 800Mb conner.

>Problem 1:
>While fdisking (v 1.5), I put on a 32Mb swap, a 50Mb root, and the
>rest as native linux (which I was planning on mounting as /usr).
>Printing a partition list resulted in fdisk telling me the
>physical/logical endings of my third, large partition were different.
>The physical end was at cylinder 547, while the logical ended at 1572.
>This is a rather large difference.  Is this a problem?  It sure looks
>like one.

I got errors saying "odd number of sectors" &c when I fdisk'ed my new 345MB
drive.  I think that I have a few unused sectors now as a result (hasn't
affected me... yet).

Quote:>Problem 2:
>I don't want a set limit on /home, so I want /home to be a soft link to
>/usr/home (where all the space will be).  How do I go about that?
>For some reason, my man pages on ln are a bit sparse.  And how do I
>deal with stuff that's already in /home?  mv it to /usr/home before I
>do any linking?

Better yet, to ensure that such links are followed properly through NFS
(in case you forget to set the NFS flag that converts / to equivalent
numbers of ../):

mkdir /usr/home
cd /
ln -s ./usr/home home

I dealt with the stuff in /home in a different way.  My / partition is larger,
so I left most of the home directories in /home, created /usr/home, moved
/home/ftp to /usr/home/ftp, and

cd /home
ln -s ../usr/home/ftp ftp

I left the other directories intact.

Unfortunately, Linux does not have automount (which -- someone correct me if
I'm wrong -- I believe is how CCO gets your home directory to magically
appear in /home without permanent symlinks no matter what computer you're on).

[Other problems]
Not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but it sounds complicated enough
that I shouldn't try to answer it without my system in front of me.  :-(
--
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Problem 1:
While fdisking (v 1.5), I put on a 32Mb swap, a 50Mb root, and the
rest as native linux (which I was planning on mounting as /usr).
Printing a partition list resulted in fdisk telling me the
physical/logical endings of my third, large partition were different.
The physical end was at cylinder 547, while the logical ended at 1572.
This is a rather large difference.  Is this a problem?  It sure looks
like one.

Problem 2:
I don't want a set limit on /home, so I want /home to be a soft link to
/usr/home (where all the space will be).  How do I go about that?
For some reason, my man pages on ln are a bit sparse.  And how do I
deal with stuff that's already in /home?  mv it to /usr/home before I
do any linking?

Problem 3:
How do I change Lilo to be on the master boot record, so I don't need
a linux partition on my primary disk?  Can I just use setup to start
from scratch once my secondary drive has all the linux stuff I want?

Problem 4:
What is it exactly that I need to change in /etc/fstab to reflect the
fact that my linux material is on /dev/hdb?

Well, I'll be thankful for all the help I can get!

John
--
John White

L.A. Kings Cup in '95!  L.A. Lakers - Draft in '95!

I'm currently moving linux to my secondary drive, an 800Mb conner.

Problem 1:
While fdisking (v 1.5), I put on a 32Mb swap, a 50Mb root, and the
rest as native linux (which I was planning on mounting as /usr).
Printing a partition list resulted in fdisk telling me the
physical/logical endings of my third, large partition were different.
The physical end was at cylinder 547, while the logical ended at 1572.
This is a rather large difference.  Is this a problem?  It sure looks
like one.

Problem 2:
I don't want a set limit on /home, so I want /home to be a soft link to
/usr/home (where all the space will be).  How do I go about that?
For some reason, my man pages on ln are a bit sparse.  And how do I
deal with stuff that's already in /home?  mv it to /usr/home before I
do any linking?

Problem 3:
How do I change Lilo to be on the master boot record, so I don't need
a linux partition on my primary disk?  Can I just use setup to start
from scratch once my secondary drive has all the linux stuff I want?

Problem 4:
What is it exactly that I need to change in /etc/fstab to reflect the
fact that my linux material is on /dev/hdb?

Well, I'll be thankful for all the help I can get!

John
--
John White

L.A. Kings Cup in '95!  L.A. Lakers - Draft in '95!

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In my case, setting the end cylinder to 1170 mangled the partition's start
cylinder (531 instead of 537).  This lead to the filesystem's superblock
being placed IN my swap partition.

You do have an option if fdisk is corrupting your partition table.  I
found that 'cfdisk' in the util-linux (1.6 or higher) handled my partition
table correctly.

Sites for util-linux are:
Site1        = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1        = /pub/faith/linux/utils
File1        = util-linux-1.6.tar.gz util-linux-1.6.bin.tar.gz
FileSize1    = 544k for source distribution and 395k for binary distirbution
Site2        = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2        = /pub/linux/{sources,binaries}/sbin
Site3        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path3        = /pub/Linux/system/Admin

See util-linux-*.lsm for more details.

Kevin