eric jackson wrote: > > > I feel like the guy who can't figure out why his computer won't turn on > only to discover it was unplugged! I haven't had a chance to look > further but I used Diskdrake yesterday before I went to work. It does > show the remainder of the hard drive. It just says it's empty. I don't > know yet if I can actually use it(access it, format it,) but I'll give > it a try over the weekend. > > It may be that the bios limited the size of the partition on my computer > but the rest of the drive is available to me as a seperate partition. > > > > > Eric Jackson > > Eric, Don't be suprised if Linux can use the entire drive. Linux does not use the BIOS to access the drive, except for the boot loader. That loads the kernel, and inital RAM disk. This is why the practice of having a small /boot partition near the front of the drive started. You would put the kernel and the initrd file there, along with the files for Lilo or Grub. On dual boot systems, it was common to have Windows on the part of the drive that the BIOS could access, and give the rest to Linux.
With your setup, you have lots of options on how you use the space the BIOS does not see. Just remember that /boot has to be in the part the BIOS can see. What I usualy do is create a 32M /boot partition as the first partition, starting at the beginning of the drive, and go from there. But with your system alread installed, this probably isn't going to work for you. Depending on your system setup, you may want to use it for /home, or /var. Or you may want something like /data or /backup, depending on how you are using your system. I have set up systems with a large partition just for music and/or video files - especialy usefull if you are setting up a media server. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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