On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, a whole swack of helpful people wrote:
> At 04:28 PM 8/20/99 -0400, I wrote:
>
> >Do you have any free space on the drive?
>
> Yes I do...995mb left on the Linux partition..
>
> Why could I not set it to something other than 7mb for the /home partion??
>
> > If so, you could use Disk Druid to
> >set the /home partition to be growable, therefore filling whatever free
> >space you have left
>
> I tried that last night...actually tried setting it to 500mb and it would
> not let me...all the way down to 10mb and still no luck....it would only
> accept 7mb.
>
> As well I did as you suggested and toggled the "grow to fill disk"...but
> that did not seem to work either...as of today the /home partition is 100%
> full...can't even check my mail :-/
Well after a bit of noodling I figured it out ...sorta :-)
The version I'm using is the "Complete Linux" from Macmillian Publishing, which
comes complete with a "limited" version of Partition Magic to do the "dual-boot"
thing.
When creating the partitions with this limited version you are given
three choices for size..600mb, 1.5gig and remaining space.
I chose the 1.5 gig...in its creation process it automatically creates a Swap
partition of approx. double that of your RAM.
Now when reading along in the installation manual (as all good newbies should)
it says to create the next important mount point of /home. I chose Disk
Druid...which is a lot friendlier looking than "fdisk" :-)
So I set the three mount points...but strangley
enough...theres only 7mb left to use for the /home partition and you can not
adjust the size in Disk Druid using the "edit" function.
I think this is ...a bug ...or maybe its me :-)
So being a "newbie" I assumed this was kosher...and continued on with the
install....well a few email later my /home directory is full.
I tried deleting partitions on Disk Druid to re-size them...but it kept
incrementing the number of the partitions etc....and after I had completely
destroyed the Linux partitons ..it would not boot up and gave a "kernel panic"
error.
So...I deleted the Linux partition...got brave and when re-installing I used
"fdisk" to setup the partitions...which worked ...sorta :-)
I managed during my mucking about to create the dos/Linux partitions, but in
the course of doing that I think I have left some unused disk space sitting in
the ozone...as the two partitions sizes I have don't add up to 6.4 gig.
Not a biggie tho...as Win works...Linux seems to work better after I did all
the updates...kernel and all.
Why is the updated kernel not able to be seen when you use the "updates" icon
from the desktop??
..all the other upgrades are there...but not the kernel
ok..I'm on a roll...one more before I go...I have been using gFTP but when I
log onto my server...the "htdocs" directory is a symbolic link of "WWW" and
gFTP does not seem to be able to deal with this sym link...any ideas???
clicking on it brings up an empty file..
..ok I lied..
What are the other alternatives for an FTP client??
Thanks for all the help and please excuse my rather verbose email, but it may
save another newbie some hair down the road.
- thanks folks and have a nice weekend -
--
best regards
-michael
Michael Chopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/
Website & Web Applications Development
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