Large Drives (Was: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4r raid not showing in gui)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rickard Osser wrote:

> jeff, I just remembered one thing about the ISO-images for the
> RaQ4/Qube3, they don't really see larger disks than ~40GB... If you put
> in larger they will only use around 8GB for the home partition. This is
> ofcourse fixable but can be a hassle for users not used to
> "re-partitioning" live file-systems.

Thanks for the heads-up, Rickard.  This was NOT our problem <smile>, but
it's worth noting for people who don't realize it.

We've found that old RaQ4 ISOs can only use drives up to ~ 30 Gigabytes;
newer ones seem to handle ~ 40 Gigs without problem.  Don't know about
larger; never tried.

As smaller drives become harder to find, unless Sun/Cobalt can continue
to upgrade this, it's going to mark a functional end-of-life for the
RaQs <frown>.

I recently had to replace a drive on a RaQ3; we found and installed a 20
G drive because we didn't want to mess with finding an ISO that would
work with a larger drive.  If we hadn't been able to find the 20, we'd
have had to play with repartitioning.

Do you have a preferred tool for extending the home partition under
Linux?  Anyone?

Jeff


Jeff
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