Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!virtech!cpcahil From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Changing hard disk partitions Message-ID: <1991Apr23.131919.8083@virtech.uucp> Date: 23 Apr 91 13:19:19 GMT References: <1991Apr12.094520.9660@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <1991Apr13.164855.1252@virtech.uucp> Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc. Lines: 25 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Apr13.164855.1252@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >> for a 140MB disk I would compine /root and /usr so that they share >> tmp space. >And I'd suggest the opposite for any disk over 40 MB. Why combine them? By combining them you share the extra space that you need to allocate for building kernels, /usr/spool, /usr/tmp, and /tmp. Otherwise you have to calculate what you think you will need and never be able to go over in either partition. >You can also turn the DOS partition into a UNIX partition, since the partition >start is an absolute offset from the start of the disk just edit >/etc/partitions appropriately and mkfs. ("just" he says). If this actually can be done, I wouldn't recommend it because a year from now when you come up with a need for a dos partition and see that a portion of the disk is not allocated in the partition table, you might forget that it is used for unix and fdisk a dos partition on top of it. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170