problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i like to keep everything) is just over 10Gb. when i boot it hangs on the message:

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:26:40PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i like to keep everything)

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you might break things. which is? I don't recall what the limit is, but with a large partition that may contain many small files, you're likely to run out of inodes. And that's no fun. I'd suggest breaking up var into

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you might break things. which is? See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ i've had bad luck in the past with non primary partitions. i try and avoid them when i

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Peter Wintrich
you must have a boot partition comlete into the lower 1024 cyl. On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote: i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor