On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. > > Here is what I have then I will ask for advice / help. > > My new hard drive has / swap and /home on it. Snip Did you use DiskDrake to partition your hard drive?? The options /backup and /music are not in my options OR can I call them anything I want and assign them to /part 1 thru 12 as needed ??? > > My question is: If I go into Mount Points and go to each hard drive > > and choose the partition size and define it what should they be ? /var ?? another /home ? ?..... just what I'm not sure. I have all this space and it's not showing up usable. Snip ? ? Do I need a swap on all three drives ? ? > > > > I have gone thru all my books and the net and nothing really talks > > about multiple hard drives. There is really nothing out there for multiple hard drives. Snip > > I'm really confused now on what to do. > > Thanks for all your help in advance, > > bj Snip This is helpful . Do you have just one large hard drive ? > > Alter it to your needs: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 > 2.9G 123M 2.7G 5% / > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 > 18G 4.7G 12G 28% /backup > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > 66M 11M 53M 17% /boot > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 > 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /home > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 > 34G 26G 5.9G 82% /music > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 > 7.7G 406M 7.0G 6% /tmp > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 > 20G 5.9G 13G 33% /usr > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 > 9.5G 207M 8.8G 3% /var > I have installed everything that looked interesting so in my case > reseting the part's to used would be sufficient. Thanks again. Sorry .... Still confused bj
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