R: Partitioning (ex: Installing Fedora on RH9 (newbie))

[Bob McClure Jr]

If I may jump in here ...

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:49:24PM +0100, Ninux wrote:
> OK!
> I reinstalled Fedora from scratch and tried to partition after your
> suggestion!
> 
> Now, from "fdisk" I receive the following warning:
> 
> =================================================================
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> =================================================================
> 
> What happened?

That's ok.  That's a normal warning.  You've dealt with the potential
problem by putting /boot on/dev/hdb2 which is entirely under the
1024-cylinder boundary.  That's largely a BIOS constraint so that it
can access the kernel below that boundary.

> With the "print" command I receive the following information:
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 8447 MB, 8447459328 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1027 cylinders
> Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Dispositivo Avvio    Inizio    Fine   Blocchi   Id  Sistema
> /dev/hdb1   *         1       517   4152771    b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdb2           518       534    136552+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb3           535       567    265072+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb4           568      1027   3694950    5  Esteso
> /dev/hdb5           568       635    546178+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb6           636       960   2610531   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb7           961      1025    522081   82  Linux swap

Note that two cylinders, 1026-1027 remain unused.  That's a small
loss.

> /dev/hdb1          4,0G  2,0G  2,0G  51% /mnt/win
> 
> "df -h" gives me:
> 
> Filesystem         Dimens. Usati Disp. Uso% Montato su
> /dev/hdb3             251M   96M  143M  40% /
> /dev/hdb2             130M  6,2M  117M   6% /boot
> none                  125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb6             2,5G  2,1G  269M  89% /usr

/dev/hdb6 is a little tight, but workable.

> /dev/hdb5             525M   66M  434M  14% /var
> 
> and "mount":
> 
> /dev/hdb3 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> /dev/hdb2 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/hdb6 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hdb5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/win type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000)
> 
> What do you think, is all that ok, now?

Looks good to me.

> Thanks a lot for your help.
> Ciao,
> Nino
> =================================

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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