[Pc_Support] Re: LUNA: Adding 400 GB HDD to SuSE 9.2 system ....

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 00:45 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> As hazy recollections are revisited, I am almost certain that I did
> the 160 GB (about 2 years ago) w/o fdisk or equivalent (I expected
> mkreiserfs to fail if there were problems ....). I redressed that this
> time. I setup the 400 GB drive as ext3, after fsidk-ing it into 1
> large partition. I then moved everything off of the 160 GB & re-did it
> (fdisk/mkreiserfs, rather than just mkreiserfs) & moved everything
> back. We'll see about reliability, stay tuned :-) ....

In Linux, you can probably get away with that.  All you get is an extra
cylinder 0 (~8MB for 63/255 sectors/heads) in capacity that is normally
used for the Legacy BIOS/DOS disk label (partition table), master boot
record (MBR), etc...


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