Michael P Angell wrote:
Pretty much a partitioning question. 2 or 6 partitions? Usage and or benefit of higher lower number of partitions? Didn't Red Hat install multiply partitions in earlier versions
Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to Linux/Fedora, so take my advice with a grain of salt
/boot is nice to have on a separate partition for various reasons. It doesn't grow out of bounds, either, so it's an easy choice. Everything else lives perfectly well on / most of the time I've heard somewhere that it's nice to have /home on a separate partition for smoother upgrades (read: reinstalls), but that seems like a lot of work, since both /home and /usr like to grow in size.. It's definitely easier to make a mistake than in case of /boot.
Of course none of this would be an issue if there weren't any legal problems with a certain filesystem that will go unmentioned so as to not start another flame war :)
HTH
I have no idea what legal problems your talking about. But reinstall hint got me on the right track to understanding why one would separate things. So 4 partitions is max with 1 able to be partitioned again? That is a little confusing, partition a partition?
Parted -l gives me 2 primary partitions but the first one starts at 32.3kb?
[root@localhost ~]# parted -l Model: ATA SAMSUNG SV6003H (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 60.1GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot 2 107MB 60.1GB 59.9GB primary lvm
Michael P Angell wrote:
Michael P Angell wrote:
Pretty much a partitioning question. 2 or 6 partitions? Usage and or benefit of higher lower number of partitions? Didn't Red Hat install multiply partitions in earlier versions
Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to Linux/Fedora, so take my advice with a grain of salt
/boot is nice to have on a separate partition for various reasons. It doesn't grow out of bounds, either, so it's an easy choice. Everything else lives perfectly well on / most of the time I've heard somewhere that it's nice to have /home on a separate partition for smoother upgrades (read: reinstalls), but that seems like a lot of work, since both /home and /usr like to grow in size.. It's definitely easier to make a mistake than in case of /boot.
Of course none of this would be an issue if there weren't any legal problems with a certain filesystem that will go unmentioned so as to not start another flame war :)
HTH
I have no idea what legal problems your talking about. But reinstall hint got me on the right track to understanding why one would separate things. So 4 partitions is max with 1 able to be partitioned again? That is a little confusing, partition a partition?
Parted -l gives me 2 primary partitions but the first one starts at 32.3kb?
[root@localhost ~]# parted -l Model: ATA SAMSUNG SV6003H (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 60.1GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot 2 107MB 60.1GB 59.9GB primary lvm
Thanks for showing me parted -l. I did mime and it looks like this:
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1152MB 1152MB primary linux-swap 2 1152MB 11.2GB 10.0GB primary ext3 3 11.2GB 16.2GB 5017MB primary ext3 4 16.2GB 160GB 144GB extended 5 16.2GB 58.2GB 42.0GB logical ext3 6 58.2GB 58.3GB 115MB logical ext3 7 58.3GB 73.7GB 15.4GB logical ext3 8 73.7GB 78.9GB 5149MB logical ext3
Model: ATA WDC WD1600JS-00N (scsi) Disk /dev/sdf: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 8225MB 8225MB primary
Both of mine also start at 32.3KB and that may be a Windows requirement. Can think of nothing else. Interesting.
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:53 -0500, Michael P Angell wrote:
So 4 partitions is max with 1 able to be partitioned again? That is a little confusing, partition a partition?
Four *primary* partitions maximum, for all the PC BIOSs that I've heard about (that's what initially has to deal with reading the drive). Inside them you can sub-divide with secondary/extended partition schemes, handled by the OS that you're running.
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