missing hard drive space

[MG]

sdb won't mount and it's fast enough usually with Windows

2009/4/19 Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de>

> MG wrote:
> > I have 5 hard drives equalling a 100gigs
> I suspect you are referring to 1000 gigs which more or less is one TB
>
> > don't think it's too much to ask to use em normally
>
> Well this depends. Imho this setup is crazy in regard to the PC being
> potentially very lood and also your collection of disks might consume a
> lot of energy, but will most probably not offer good the performance of
> a recent big disk.
>
> But this is not my problem.
>
> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x7e91a39a
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *           1       19647   157814496   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda2           19648       20023     3020220    5  Extended
> > /dev/sda5           19648       20023     3020188+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max#
>
> This is the disk that you are currently using for linux, one partiton
> for the system (/) and the other for swap
>
> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0xb51fa8fc
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1               1       19457   156288321    7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> This looks like a Windows Disk from NT4/Win2k/XP/Vista..., you can
> access it by mounting it.
>
>
>
> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x524a757d
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdc1               1       48641   390706232    b  W95 FAT32
>
> This is a larger disk with the old FAT filesystem coming from Win
> 9.x/ME. It is easy to use this from linux. Just mount it.
>
>
> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdd: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x227f1d55
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdd1               1         392     3148708+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> >
> Again, this is a more recent NTFS disk from NT4, Win2k....
>
> Conclusion:
> What are you intending to achieve with this mess?
>
> If I were you, I would most probably toss the two 160 GB disks, then use
> the 400 GB disk to have two windows partitions (C:\ and D:\) and finally
> use the remaining 320 GB disk for (at least) two linux partitions ("/"
> and /home). Btw. I would fix them with novibes frames, to minimize noise.
>
> Should you (i.e. I being you) decide to stay with Linux, you can use the
> 400 GB Disk for this and use the 320 Disk as an external USB Backup Disk
> (connected with an usb enclosure)
>
> Surely, this is my advice for a desktop computer.
>
> If you are installing a server system, things could be entirely
> different with RAID, LVM or similar kinds of things.
>
> kind regards
> Eberhard
>
>
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