fedora-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 249

[Karl Larsen]

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 at 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.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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