Re: Reorganizing My HD.
- From: Wayne <infotechsys pivot net>
- To: Jack Carroll <jac chives mv com>, "gnome-list gnome org" <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Reorganizing My HD.
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 19:24:53 -0400
>
Thanks for your suggestion.
later-
Wayne
> FWIW, if you're adding a LOT of disk space, and don't need to use it to
> maximum efficiency, you could do what I did next time you repartition. I
> set up several small partitions in the first 1023 cylinders, just big
> enough to hold a boot/root partition or a small non-Linux OS. /usr and
> /home are in separate large partitions, in the non-bootable high
> cylinders. That way, I have a spare instance of Linux in the extra boot
> partitions, so I can mess around without taking chances with the main
> instance that I rely on. All you have to do is get familiar enough with
> LILO configuration so you can make all the boot partitions accessible from
> the boot command line. See the LILO on-line doc files.
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