Inappropriate partition sizes

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Headsup UNIX admins,

I received a new poweredge 1750 with 3-73GB drives in a RAID configuration with Linux installed. The partiton configuration was set so that 80% of the storage space was unavailable and all 9 partitions were used by the system. No partition could be deleted and resized without screwing the OS install and there were no more partitions available. Thus I had to reinstall the OS. Consider that before ordering a system with Linux vs. an empty system.

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janpeuker · Answer

This is not completely true. I received two 1800 systems two weeks ago - if you start from the rescue cd and use fdisk it is possible to resize and create logical partitions. I created a partition table like this:

/dev/sda7 2.0G 333M 1.6G 18% /
/dev/sda3 190M 18M 163M 10% /boot

/dev/sda8            1012M   33M 928M   4% /tmp
/dev/sda5             9.7G 2.6G 6.6G 29% /usr
/dev/sda6             9.7G 112M 9.1G   2% /var
/dev/sda9              37G   33M   35G   1% /home
/dev/sda10            3.9G   33M 3.7G   1% /db
/dev/sda11            2.0G   33M 1.8G   2% /srv
/dev/sda12             68G   51M   64G   1% /shares

But, anyway, the linux support on Dell systems is really poor. I'm not glad to say that I'm really p off they sold my two servers and after that saying "oh, you want to join them? sorry, including redhat3 into an ads domain is not possible yet" and giving no further support on this (even redhat says they don't give support). This is a major problem - even if the rest (e.g. openmanage) of the two servers is really great.

Message Edited by janpeuker on 01-01-2005 06:39 AM

Eric BY · Answer

Joining RHEL 3 to ADS is not that hard, I followed this article in my lab and it worked fine. http://technology.newsforge.com/technology/04/12/09/2258243.shtml

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