Re: [cobalt-developers] <No Subject>

["Matthew Nuzum" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I said in an earlier post today, I don't have a cube server, so I can't
answer with 100% confidence.  However, I can give you an opinion on how it
might work...

If you do the restore, and you have a lot of extra disk space availble, but
not partitioned, you can manually fix it.

For example, on my Raq4 server, everything of value is on the /home
partition.  So I could do a good backup of /home, remove the partition,
create a new partition that encompases the unused space of the hard drive,
mount it as /home and restore from backup.

You may not be able to use 100% of your drive in this case.  If the
filesystem you want to enlarge is in an extended partition and the unused
space is outside of the extended partition then you wouldn't be able to use
the space inside the extended partition.  Additionally, you'd get a new
partition number, so you'd want to update /etc/fstab so that it didn't look
for the old partition.

Unfortunately, this may not be an option.  For example, in Xenix, the disk
slices used the whole disk and if you mirrored the 600MB hard drive onto a 2
GB hard drive, you would only get 600MB.  No if's, and's or but's.  I'm 95%
certain that Linux does not have this problem.

I hope this helps,
Matt Nuzum
----- Original Message -----
From: <lim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: [cobalt-developers] <No Subject>


> hi there,
>
> we have same in common here, i'm back to 20GB now :-(
> and doing re-installation.
> actually i've a quesion here. does Qube3 really support VPN? any ideas?
> but anyway. i'm glad i found you guys! hahaha
>
> have a nice day, buddy!
>
>
>
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > on 12/3/02 11:03 AM, Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >> does anyone knows how the Qube3 works with 40GB IDE HDD?
> > >> i've tried with cobalt restore CD. the installation done successfully
w/o
> > >> any error.
> > >> yet, when i run df -h
> > >> i found it utilized only around 6GB. rest of the space is hidden.
> > >> how can i partition it or run 'format' in order to make use of rest
of
> > >
> > > hrrm, post your df output here?  I'm currently experimenting (on my
own
> > > Qube3) with 2x120 GB drives.  I'll let you all know how it goes, but I
am
> > > planning some 'unusual' mods :)
> >
> > I've also had exactly the same problem.  The Qube3 OS Restore CD is
happy
> > with 20GB disks but when used with 40GB disks you end up with only 6GB
> > available.
> >
> > I didn't have time to investigate ... just went back and sourced 20GB
disks
> > which are getting hard to find.
> >
> > 2 x 120GB ... awesome!  How do you plan to do backups?
> >
> > Cheers,  Malcolm
> >
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