Re: hard drives - upgrades n stuff

Tim Lovelock (timothy.lovelock@yale.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:17:51 -0500

The reason I didn't want to do this was that I wanted to keep my current 500mb
hard drive as my root, and thus avoid having to get the new drive to boot up
correctly, which I don't really feel like doing. Also, if I made my large
drive my main bootup drive, I would lose the ability to switch OS by disabling
the hard drive in BIOS, given that I wanted to use some of the space on the
large HD for a shared fat partition.

Furthermore, if the large hard drive were to serve as my boot drive,I would
have to deal with the >1024 issue, which I don't want to if need be.

I guess I COULD solve the problem by creating some directory called /hd2 and
just having /usr /var and /home be sym links to directories in /hd2. Anyone
have thoughts about having main parts of the directory tree be symlinks?
Would I be better to use a hard link? Just wondering.

--Tim

Matt McClure wrote:

> Shawn Bayern wrote:
> >
> > What you seem to be calling for is a single large partition. Why make it
> > more complicated than necessary? I don't know of any way of getting
> > partitions to resize themselves dynamically; that would involve some
> > fairly difficult filesystem-level games on top of the magical partitions.
>
> Could someone enlighten me on the advantage of multiple partitions? It
> seems that for flexibility, the large partition would always be better.
> I assume that I'm missing something though.