On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:41:04 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > hda1 32M /boot > > Why do people bother with this nonsense?
Because on a 300G hard drive and an old bios, i wanted to ensure that the kernel is somewhere where the bios can find it. Once the kernel is loaded it will read the whole drive. > > > hda2 500M swap > > hda3 20G / > > hda4 270 something /home (for the storage) > > > > / and /home are formatted ext3. I anticipate quite large files. I > > formatted them quite simply with mke2fs -j. > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda4 257G 129M 244G 1% /home > > Compare with fdisk -l /dev/hda and tune2fs -l /dev/hda4. > > What's the max size of ext2/3? > > Try enlarging the filesystem (fsck, resize2fs). > > > Before I start filling it up, is there a better way to format it? > > Yes, reiserfs ;) > Any quick pointers on why you say that (and are you suggesting 3 or 4?) > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
