On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:41:29PM -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 16:45, Chris Tooley wrote:
> > > Wish I could file an evolution bug and blame it on someone else, but my
> > > problem is my own stupidity trying to make space on my harddrive. BTW
> > > what is the status of being able to move the start point of a
> > > partition? I can't do a dump and restore on my workstation and really
> > > need to add some space to this partition. However, I'm at the end of
> > > the disk.
> > Disk drives are really cheap now, I have a spare 20Gbyte 7200 rpm IBM
> > IDE drive sitting on a shelf in my office, it cost about $100.
>
> I installed a scratch 20 Gb cheap-o into a removeable tray, and have the
> tray on a couple of computers. Makes a wonderful floppy. Just make sure
> it is formatted as an extended/logical partition, primaries tend to
> confuse some more stupid o/s's when the partitions get added and
> removed. I highly recommend a removeable tray scratch IDE drive.
A sleek USB chassis might also be nice as they hot-swap and all. I
haven't got one (apart from the CF in my camera) since I'm not quite
sure that particular models would work (are there differences? OT, I
know, don't answer =). That and an automounter make a nice combination.
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