On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Mark Carey wrote:
> Before I partition the drive, my questions for the list,
>
> 1. Is it safe to use the drive at full capacity, I will never be
> booting from this drive? O this motherboard. I plan long term to pick
> up a PIII chip and motherboard from Broker when they get one in, which
> should support the larger drive.
>
> 2. What file system do people reccomend for /home reiser, xfs, other?
> Am currently using ext3 but have seen various religious flame wars on
> the topic and would like some pointers and this is my experience type
> discussion.
Once the kernel has booted it takes over from the bios. This means that
if you have two HDDs and one is missing from the bios then the kernel will
find it and access it. I found this useful when I had drives larger that
the bios could cope with.
A trick when hda is too big for the bios is to feed in parameters to the
bios that will fool it into booting the first part of the drive. If the
kernel is in this section then it will take over from the bios and
accesses the whole drive. I have used this as well.
Yes, you are quite safe using the drive as hda or hdx. I am conservative
and use ext3.
Phil.
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