Disk Recovery Part III

[galsterm at gmail.com (Matt Galster)]

Disks & mag tape aren't sold by the GB as you or your computer know
it.  They are sold by the GB=1,000,000,000.  In the same vein as the
"$19.99 is significantly less than $20.00" mentality.

MEG


On 12/20/05, Don Levey <lug at the-leveys.us> wrote:
> Just an update for those who were so kind as to help me:
>
> I've gotten my two new disks; they just arrived today.  I've partitioned one
> of them as follows:
>
> 0.5 GB  /boot
> 35.0 GB /
> 25.0 GB /home
> 95.0 GB /misc
> 2.5 GB  swap
>
> Yes, this only seems to add up to 158GB and not 160, but that's what fdisk
> would let me do.  I'm copying data now to this one.  I'll then partition the
> other the same way, but leave it blank.  I've made /boot bootable.  Over the
> weekend, I'll edit /etc/fstab on the new drive to make sure it mounts things
> correctly, and then replace the old with the new drive.  Once I'm sure this
> will boot, I can add the second drive on another IDE interface and do
> whatever RAID magic I neet to get the /, /home and /misc mirrored.  I'll
> beep the duplicate /boot partitions based upon a previous suggestion, as
> well as two non-mirrored swap partitions (unless the consensus really is to
> RAID the swap).
>
> I'll keep you updated as this moves on - and I'll probably need to ask more
> questions.  I've got another, but as it doesn't relate to this I'll start
> another thread for it...
>
>  -Don
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