Re: [cobalt-users] max drive size, Raq3i ???

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 07 September 2002 10:29, jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> So, did I do something totally silly, I bought 20gig drives for $65. But I
> can get 80 for just over $100. Seems silly to be so limiting for such a
> small cost difference.
>
> Is there a max size I can put in a Raq3i   - I would think the bigger it is
> the more heat it may generate, so I'm curious on the OS side and the
> physics side.
>
> I have good reason to have large drives, I cross-backup machines, I backup
> the RAQ to a 2000 server and the 2000 server to the Raq.
>

The size of the disk has nothing to do with heat, so no worry there
The standard RaQ restore CD will not handle a disk larger than 32.8 GB.

Since you were going to dd the disk, it may be better to partition and format 
the disk then copy the partitions from hda to hdc;
hda1 -> hdc1, hda2 -> hdc2 etcetera.
It is not that difficult to use fdisk and create the partitions.
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks         Id  System
/dev/hda1             1          4064   2048255+   83  Linux ext2  '/' 2GB
/dev/hda2          4065      4585    262584        5  Extended     ALL
/dev/hda3          4586      6617   1024128     83  Linux ext2 '/var' 1GB
/dev/hda4          6618     38792  16216200   83  Linux ext2 /home 16GB
/dev/hda5          4065      4125     30743+      83  Linux ext2
/dev/hda6          4126      4585    231839+     82  Linux swap 232MB
These are the partitions on one of my RaQs with a 20 GB Drive
The blocks are 1K byte. ( I changed the partition tables on the Restore CD)
You could create partitions to use for your backups
/dev/hdc7   with as many blocks as you like
/dev/hdc8   with as many blocks as you like

You would use fdisk /dev/hdc 
create partition 1 above
create partition 2 the extended partition so let it use the remaining space
and so forth, you can always delete the partitions and use another method,
or resize them as needed.
Then run 
mke2fs  /dev/hdcX   where X is the partition, on all the partitons

I am looking at a program called parted
I'll install it tomorrow and see how it works.

Gerald
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