Partition Inconsistencies

[John M. Moniz]

teddymills wrote:

>
> 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.

There is only one computer but there are 2 drives. I have the /home 
partition on the 2nd drive and it's the only partition on that drive. I 
didn't think that was an odd way of doing it.

>
>
>
> 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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