[Gllug] flushing tape drive cache - SOLVED

[Ryan Cartwright]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:45:03PM +0100, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>-- egg on face - long explanation follows ---
>>
>>further to my earlier post - the drive cache was not the problem - the 
>>symlink was.
>>
>>* The drive is an ATAPI drive and it is the first IDE/ATA device
>>* /dev/tape is symlinked to /dev/hda
>>* `ls -lh /dev/hda` revealed this..
>>
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          43G 2006-03-25 01:32 /dev/hda
> 
> 
> Eeek! That implies that you have a *huge* RFS[**], I must admit that I don't
> like that, I always create the RFS as small[%%] partition, the point being
> that if something horrible happens a small (& hopefully quiescent RFS[$$]) will
> not get corrupted.
> 
> [**] OK: that is what most linux installers do be default as it is the no brainer.
> 
> [%%] About 1GB these days, which is obscenely big anyway, especially since I have
> /usr as another partition.
> 
> [$$] which is why /tmp and /home are in other partitions

Indeed I do - most of the 160Gb drive. Needless to say I inherited this 
m/c but I understand it was delivered with this setup (has SuSE on it so 
I guess the suppliers just used defaults) - rather scarily this includes 
the afore-mentioned /dev/hda mess.

cheers
Ryan
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