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

[Jay Crews <jpc jaycrews com>]

Sean Earp writes....
> 
> 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 

Yes.
Because you did not partition it as anything.
You only format partitions that you have layed out and
allocated to something.  In your case, 
/boot	100MB
/	29.9GB
swap	1GB

Which is fine, but it's a little cleaner to split that 29.9GB
up into /home, /usr, and /var
But if you are already installed and running fine, no big deal.

So now you have 29GB of free space that you can use later
if you need to.
In your case, you might want to consider a backup partition
on that second drive since all your real stuff is on the first
HD.  If HD 1 dies, then you have your data safely backed up
on HD 2.  But there is no need to partition and format disk
apace just because it's there.  Down the road, you might find
something that you want it's own partition for.

Make sense?

Later

-- Jay Crews
jpc jaycrews com


> 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
>