Adding Partitions

Paul Stewart paul at paulstewart.org
Fri May 8 00:59:53 UTC 2009


Hi there.

 

I've been reading through various docs but getting a bit lost - figure this
must be fairly easy to explain ;)

 

On my machine (Dell R710 Poweredge) I have 6 SAS drives running RAID5 via
Perc 6/I controller.  To get Fedora 10 to install, I had to shrink the
initial partition down so I thought I'd install with just this:

 

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2             10079084   1354216   8212868  15% /

/dev/sda1               198337     19162    168935  11% /boot

tmpfs                  4149532         0   4149532   0% /dev/shm

 

Then I'll take the remaining 4.8TB or so and mount them after installing.
The install went fine now with the smaller partition to boot with..

 

So, having not run Fedora for a bit, I thought I'd fire up FDISK but it
tells me:

 

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk
doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

 

So I fire up parted and create a partition (weird that it only supports ext2
vs ext3).  That part seems to go fine and now I need to add that partition
to /etc/fstab but now I get confused:

 

UUID=8e37b3d8-a52f-4620-ad58-1ae79abd8b50 /                       ext3
defaults        1 1

UUID=74dfbed0-e91c-4d95-b09c-0b8eb9d96543 /boot                   ext3
defaults        1 2

tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0

devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0

sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0

proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

UUID=905ac254-05fb-4ca2-856d-01e05ee4a7d2 swap                    swap
defaults        0 0

 

I've never seen this UUID stuff before - how do I add my new partition to
fstab?  I've been reading that UUID is related to the GPT but is there a way
for me to add this partition?

 

Also, what is the maximum partition size under Core 10?

 

Thanks for your time,

 

Paul

 

 

 

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