Neil, Thanks for response. A few other questions below: limahotel said: >> I need to create a partition on a HD for dual boot Windows/Linux >> installation. Windows will go in the primary, Linux Fedora 3 in the >> Extended. I plan to use Partition Magic to create the extended >> partition. >> The documentation says the choices for Linux format type are Linuz >> Ext2 or >> Linus Ext3. Which one should I specify - Ext2 or Ext3?
>You can have up to 4 primary partitions. If you're going to use 3 or >fewer Linux partitions, make them all primary I use two partitions for Windows - the primary and the first logical drive of the extended (since only one primary partition can be active at a time in Windows). I assume that means I would need to put the linux partitions in the extended. Is this right? > >Ext2 is a >non-journaling filesystem. Ext3 is a journaling filesystem and an >extension of Ext2. Any reason for using Ext3? Do I need the journalizing capability? Which one is best to use for Fedora 3 - Ext2 or Ext3 ? >> I noticed an existing installation (on a different HD) that had 3 >> partitions >> for Linux with sizes of 99.9 M, 255.9 M, and 28.2 G. Yet >> documentation says >> I will need 2 partitions for the new install - the main one and a >> swap. Do >> I need 2 or 3? If only 2, what would the 99.9 M be used for on the >> existing >> install? > >I use many more than 3 on my systems. The system I'm using right now >has 7 partitions. It's hard to tell what was on your other install. I >would guess it's probably swap / and /usr. It depends a lot which >distribution and who installed it. The other install was Fedora 3 installed over Fedora 2. The Linux partitions were created automatically during the Linux install - which BTW is leading to overlap problems as reported by the PartitionInfo Tool in Partition Magic. So I don't know what the first (99.9 Mb partition)is used for. On this next install, I would like to create the partitions with Partition Magic before the Linux install (i.e. so Linux does not create them automatically which could lead to bad boundaries like before)... so i am trying to figure out how many and what sizes to use. The previous install was looked at as an example, and it had three partitions (I don't know if that's good or bad) Since the Linux partitions will come after the extended partition (with its first logical drive used by Windows) has already been created, I assume they would be in the extended partition. Any advise? Thanks for your help. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
