Partition Inconsistencies

[teddymills]

I try and separate data from the OS as much as possible (ie. put all 
data on servers)
That way if a workstation drive fails, just rebuild it again, as the 
data is on the server.

In this case it is not possible, since there is only one computer.
I use multiple partitions and put all the user data on one partition. ie 
/home sounds fine.

The idea of spinning multiple drives to keep a filesystem together 
sounds iffy.



John M. Moniz wrote:
> I was at my sister's yesterday increasing the size of the / partition 
> on her Mandriva 2007 box. It was at 99% full. I added a small HD for 
> /home and expanded the extended partition to fill the space vacated by 
> the old /home partition, then expanded the / partition within the 
> extended partition using gparted from the Ubuntu 6.06 live CD.
>
> There was an error while expanding the / partition and I thought I'd 
> lost everything in it. I rebooted and it all still came up. I could 
> see the new larger partition in fdisk or gparted, but df showed the 
> same old partition size and a fill of 99%. I tried adding a bunch of 
> programs and the / partition did indeed fill up as per the old size, 
> running out of space and preventing a KDE login.
>
> I'm not sure what to do to make the new partition show up properly. I 
> can try to resize it smaller again and back to larger the next time I 
> drop in to her place, but I'll just be grasping at straws. Any ideas 
> what I could do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
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