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

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 01:07, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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?
Well, fdisk sees the whole disk, it's just the Cobalt ISo that
doesn't... So, I usually copy the entire /home partition, to the root
unmount home, renames the directories, deletes /dev/hda4 with fdisk,
reboot the server and then partition /dev/hda4 again, this time filling
all of the disk... and ofcourse after formatting the partition copies
all of /home back to the newly formatted partition...

Not very complex... Well, don't try this at home! :)

/Rickard