On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I followed the Ebooks instructions for partitioning in Disk Druid so I
> > could make a separate partition for /home.
> >
> > I chose my native partition which was 5GB and deleted it, and tried
> > adding two partitions--one 2GB, one 1.5GB (allowing for lots of extra
> > room, even) one "native" mounting at / and one "native" mounting at
> > /home. But as soon as I add the second partition it tells me it was not
> > allocated, not enough room. I figure I must be doing something wrong.
> > Any advice?
> >
> What about swap space? Also, you need to leave a bit of
> room for "overhead." Linux reserves a few k of each meg for
> "bad spots" which may crop up later and uses that to fix
> itself as needed. I'm *guessing* you didn't tell Linux to
> make the /home on an "extended" partition, did you???
> John
>
And the problem with that is? All my Linux partitions lie within and
extended partition, which has caused absolutely no problem with SuSE 6.2,
or Mandrake 6.0/6.1. Furthermore MDK 6.1 is an upgrade, as opposed to a
fresh install.
/b
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Barry Marler
Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
University of Georgia
(706)542-0742
(706)542-0059 (fax)
