On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been trying to resist the urge to add too many partitions as well.
> I have zapped myself with winding up with no space in one partition, &
> plenty of space in another, again.
There are utilities available which will resize Linux ext2 partitions. GNU
has parted, which I've never used, but I'm told it is pretty close to usable
(if not actually past that point). If you don't mind commercial software,
PowerQuest's PartitionMagic software handles ext2 (and many others) quite
well.
> Just to show my ignorance, Linux still does a sync, right??
There is still is a sync(2) system call, if that's what you're asking. The
traditional Unix "update" daemon which sleeps and calls sync(2) every minute
has been replaced with more sophisticated methods, some of which are actually
built into the kernel in recent releases. Another difference between
traditional Unix and Linux is that sync(2) waits until all kernel I/O requests
have been committed to the hardware before returning.
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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