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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 00:45 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>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 :-) ....
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>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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I apparently *did* sorta get away with it, for a while, until I started 
using the 160 GB drive more heavily doing X-LAN backups, then the 
reliability issues cropped up. I am now doing those backups onto the 400 
GB drive (ext3, more space), so we'll see. So far, so good w/ the new 
setup ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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