brown wrap wrote: > A little more. I didn't list the size of the disks because I didn't > think it was important, but since the legacy GRUB may not be able to > handle them: > > sda is small, I am not at the machine until Sunday or Monday. > > sdb is one TB that I just store stuff on. > > sdc is the disk with LFS on it. It is 1.5 TB. I partitioned it right > down the middle and LFS is on the 2nd partition /dev/sdc2. > > I wasn't aware that the old grub, the only grub I knew about up to > now, had problems with large disks. but then again, all of the system > I've set up had small boot disks.
That may be a problem for GRUB Legacy. I'm not sure. GRUB2 can handle it though. IMO, 750G is way too big for an LFS partition. I store my BLFS sources on /usr/src which is a separate partition (50G, 50% full) and of course /home and /boot (100M) are separate so I can share them across multiple builds. Some people have /tmp and /opt as separate partitions too. I've been using the same main system since 2005. I have my LFS partition 8G (70% full) and really haven't had much problem with that. It does have most of BLFS built, but most of the bigger packages (kde, qt, mysql, gnome, etc) go on /opt (20G, 40% full). Multiple partitions give a lot more flexibility. I make my newer LFS partitions 10G. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
