Thanks, but I believe there is some unused (unallocated) disk space in
the current configuration.

# df -k
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 8064272 2632372 5022248 35% /
/dev/sda2 46668 3868 40391 9% /boot
/dev/sda5 7060276 6305364 396264 95% /u

This is everything that is in use. I don't know how to tell about
unused space.

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8841 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 4 32098+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 5 10 48195 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 11 8841 70935007+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 11 903 7172991 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 904 1923 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 1924 2178 2048256 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda8 2179 3326 9221278+ d3 Unknown

If I understand this correctly, I have 7 partitions defined. I think I
have 3 hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Each drive is 36 GB, so
that gives a total usuable space of 72 GB, right?

Glen B wrote:

Here's my pick0 file:
# /usr/lib/pick/pick0
#
# Copyright (c) PICK Systems 2001. All rights reserved
# Fri, February 13, 2004
#
name LEW
nice 0
user pick
core 1500000 10
npibs 128
nphts 32
basic 8192
brkchr 1c
escchr 1b
absbase 18
abssize 708
abslock on
blkfid 2
flush 10
dwqnum 256
disk /dev/sda8 0 9221278 # disk 0
tape /dev/fd0H1440 500 f lq # tape 0
tape /dev/fd0H720 500 f ld # tape 1
tape /dev/nst0 16384 d ls # tape 2
tape /usr/lib/pick/ab 500 p lx # tape 3
tape /usr/lib/pick/dt 500 p lx # tape 4
tape /D3install/patch 500 f lx # tape 5
tape /u/backups/bkup1 1000000 p lx # tape 6
tape /u/backups/bkup2 1000000 p lx # tape 7
tape /u/backups/bkup3 1000000 p lx # tape 8
tape /u/backups/bkup4 1000000 p lx # tape 9
tape /u/backups/bkup5 1000000 p lx # tape 10

Glen B wrote:

Glen,


Thanks for you responses. I really appreciate this, however, I am
puzzled. If Linux is using a total of 14.4 GB and D3 is using 9.2 GB,
then what is using the other 47.4 GB? Could this be unclaimed space?


Thanks,
Danny

"ddspell-m3" wrote:

You have enough info now to encourage or scare you toward or away from
one platform or another now, so I won't even touch that topic anymore.

I'm sorry if my comments here show that I've missed some of your other
comments.

My only question is: who is the Value-Add Reseller here? RD doesn't
usually sell direct to end-users unless they can support themselves.
I'm seeing yet another recipe for disaster here. If you are
completely alone in an end-user environment and you decide to take a
vacation, your company won't have a clue what to do. That sense of
vulnerability compels end-users to migrate to something familiar and
comfortable where anyone off the street can support the system. And
that's a real shame for everyone here.

My advice is to call Raining Data and tell them you'd like a VAR -
someone who will answer your questions, let you know when there are
software updates, etc.. In return for the commission that VAR takes
from your Support fees, you'll get answers to some of the questions
you've asked here. If you have a good relationship with your VAR then
you might want to pay them to do occasional maintenance or code
updates for you. (VAR commission for support fees is trivial and some
end-users get their money's worth in the first week, after which
providing support is a loss for the VAR unless you're doing some other
kind of business with them.)

I just don't want to see you or your company get stuck when you really
need your system the most.

Good luck.
T

Don't let my questions make you think my VAR is incompetent on
unhelpful. They know their stuff, although most of their customers are
using D3 NT rather than D3 Linux. When they don't know something or
are unsure, which is rare, they get Raining Data involved.

Tony Gravagno wrote:
<snip>

That's cool. People do the best they can. Well, maybe this is
another bit of compelling info toward NT: Your VAR seems better able
to support it. For many sites that's the final decision maker.

"ddspell-m3" <ddspell (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: