Re: Big-disk woes

From: Jules (julesrichardsonuk_at_remove.this.yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:26:01 +0000

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:23:14 -0800, Tom F. wrote:
> I tried setting up the disk as follows:
> hdc1 /boot 1 gig ex2
> hdc2 swap 1 gig
> hdc3 / about 125 gig ex3
> hdc4 /home about 123 gig ex3

Is there a reason for having such a huge boot partition?

  jules@pukeko:~$ du /boot
  1445 /boot

that's less than 1.5MB on my system; I'd be wasting close on 1GB of space
that'd be put to better use within a different filesystem.

I'd be inclined to say you have some sort of disk addressing problem (BIOS
setup, placement of boot / kernel files on the disk etc.) rather than it
being a hardware fault.

Did you do a full disk check at filesystem creation time? If that
completed without errors then the system's definitely capable of
addressing the disk and it'd rule out a hardware problem.

> I've heard there is some way to fix this problem manually when creating
> partitions, but I can't find exact instructions. Any help would be
> appreciated.

I only ever use fdisk when creating partitions - I've always run into
problems when using any of the graphical partition tools :)

Post the logs when you can, maybe it'll shed some light on things. Posting
the model of drive could be helpful if you also boot from floppy / cd
and from a shell run 'fdisk -l /dev/hdc' to list the partition table on
hdc.

cheers

Jules

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