Re: Red Hat doesn't use all my hard drive space...

[Ron Bramblett <bramblet fuller com>]

You will probably have to add it manually. But putting /usr and /var on 
their own partitions has advantages.

Also putting home on its own partition has tremdous advantages. Example 
Say you want to go from RHL 7.3 to 8 or 8 to 9 and all of your data is 
on home. 8 & 9 will see what was out there previously and won't format 
/home unless you tell it to.

You might have to edit the partitons not add a new one. Just change the 
names in disk druid (should be default partition manager).

It really isn't that hard to do just comes with experience. If you have 
no data then don't worry about losing any. Installation only takes about 
an hr or so. (at least on a 233).



Sean Earp wrote:
> Morning all-
>
> I searched the archives and did not find an answer, so be gentle if it 
> has been asked before.
>
> I have a computer that I am using to learn Red Hat on.  It has two 30GB 
> HD's that are completely empty.  When I go to install Red Hat 9 or 
> Severn, using the default installer options, it wants to format my hard 
> drives as follows:
>
> hda:
>
> 100MB as boot partition
> 29.something GB as /
>
> hdb
>
> 1GB as swap
> 29.something as completely empty
>
> Is there any reason why it does not assign anything to the 29 empty 
> Gigabytes on the second drive?  I can manually assign it to /home (or 
> whatever), although that automatically bumps the swap partition to the 
> first hard drive... Am I doomed to having to manually assign that extra 
> space, or is there a reason that it doesn't use almost half the space 
> available to it?  Any information would be greatly appreciated,
>
> -Sean Earp
>
>
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