Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:20:36 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tmp

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID partition numbers for the simple reason I can manually write down

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:40:01 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2

Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tmp

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 16:12, Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID partition numbers for the simple reason I can

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 17:04, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID partition numbers for the