Creating partitions

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Oct 23 18:36:21 UTC 2011



Am 23.10.2011 20:22, schrieb Joe Zeff:

On 10/23/2011 07:57 AM, Miguel Cardenas wrote:

> I would like to keep simple my disk, and reading the Fedora installation
> guide found that there are only 3 partitions required, SWAP, BOOT (ext3)
> and ROOT / (ext3)... I still don't like the idea of an independent boot
> partition but let's do it in the Fedora way... so, I want to know if
> this layout may work for me... I want to ask before doing it to save
> hours of installation just to try and see the results...
You only need a /boot partition if root is ext4, because legacy grub 
doesn't grok it.  If you only use ext3, you can get away with two 
partitions: / and swap.  (I have a separate /home, but no /boot.)

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this is simply not true
since F14 for sure ext4 is default, F13 i neve installed from scratch

/dev/md1      ext4     29G  8,0G   21G  28% /
/dev/md0      ext4    485M   51M  430M  11% /boot
/dev/md2      ext4    3,6T  1,2T  2,4T  34% /mnt/data


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