Subject: Re: Put home directories on second hard drive?
From: Zeke Runyon (zrunyon@mac.com)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2001 - 16:50:41 MST
On Saturday, December 22, 2001, at 06:42 PM, Gordon Neault wrote:
> Just format the drive any which way; I suggest choosing 1 partition
> type HFS standard, just to make sure. When you get to the Linux
> partitioner, you can delete all the partitions ADS created except
> partition hdb1 (or so I'm told. I have always had MacOS installed so in
> that case leave all the MacOS partitions except the HFS ones you don't
> intend to use in MacOS. It varies depending on what version of HD Setup
> you use, but typically the first 6 to 8 are part of the drive's setup
> to work in MacOS). This will give you a partition map like:
>
> Linux Only:
> hdb1 whatever it says
> hdb2 Free Space
>
> MacOS + Linux
> hda1 to hda 6 (for example)
> hda7 HFS
> hda8 unallocated (another way of saying free space)
>
> Then format hdb2 as Linux (ext_2) and mount it with mountpoint /home
I still don't understand why I need two partitions, unused space. Also
why I have to do all this in ADS. I've already formatted the drive
(originaly in ADS), reformatted it for linux in linux, and moved all my
/home files to the new drive.
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