On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:51 am, Todd Slater wrote: > Todd said: > > > Would you happen to know if updating the bios will affect anything > > > on the HD? Or, will it just all of a sudden be able to "see" all 40 > > > gigs and I can re-do my partitions? > > Ian said: > > A good question! To recognise all the drive you'll have to do a > > partition and format, so if you've got anything on there you want to > > keep, back it up. See if you can create a new partition in the extra > > bit. Anybody else come across this one? > > Anyhow Todd, let us know what happens! > > I was able to update the BIOS without any problem. Most of the problem I > had was with my slave drive, which reported something about a bad > superblock or something. It wouldn't boot so I went in to /etc/fstab and > just commented out that bad partition and then I could boot into Mdk. > > My goal was to add the new space to /home. The problem was that > the free space was at the end of the drive, and I had a /tmp > partition between them. > > Having backed up everything I cared about, I deleted /home and rebooted > in non-graphic mode. I logged in as root, copied /tmp to a backup > directory, and somehow got /tmp umounted and ran diskdrake to delete > /tmp, create a new /home and then recreate /tmp. I had problems starting > x from command line, and it turned out to be another warning about > superblock in /tmp. I reformatted /tmp, copied the stuff from backup > there, restarted and bingo! > > It actually took a little while to figure out that /tmp stuff, but hey, > it's done now! Except now it reports the drive is 37GB instead of 40. > Not sure what's up with that. > > Thanks for your help. > > Todd You know (of course) that it really does not make all that much difference where /tmp is on the drive, in relation to other linux partitions -- Linux counter number 167806
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