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Re: Large Drives (Was: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4r raid not showing ingui)
- Subject: Re: Large Drives (Was: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4r raid not showing ingui)
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Feb 17 22:26:00 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Thanks, Rickard.
Glad to know this is doable.
I'll pass it on to the people who restore our RaQs.
Jeff
Rickard Osser wrote:
> 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! :)
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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