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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Three of my four drives here have developed partition table problems in 
the past week, which I hope I have fixed (the last two stayed the proper 
size but the last partition on each doubled itself - is this possibly a 
BIOS problem?  They were working and I only noticed the problem while 
trying out spinrite on them.).

 A friend offered a 4G scsi drive.  I have the card and what looks like a 
scsi cable (long, blue, stiff).  To use it with linux would I need to do 
anything more than boot with my new scsi-capable kernel?

loadlin zimage.ss root=/dev/sda1 ro

Is there some advantage to having four smaller partitions instead of one 
big one and maybe a swap partition?  A smaller partition seems to boot 
faster and I could probably just use another partition mounted on /tmp 
when I needed more space for compiling, or use it to store .tgz packages 
that I don't need to get at, or mount it to use in copying music files.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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