limahotel said: > > 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?
Yeah, as I recall by default Windows always make the second partition and extended partition. Don't remember if you can force it to deal with two primary partitions. Active partitions have nothing whatsoever to do with primary and extended. The reason for a secondary partition is that the partition table can only hold 4 partitions. The extended partition hold another partition table refering to logical partitions in the extended parition. You are "extending" the partition table. This also has to do with Windows inability to recognize hard drives on it's own. Linux doesn't suffer from this deficiency. Once Linux has loaded it can see the drive on it's own and knows how to recognize it's partition table. Since Windows has already partitioned the drive, then you are destined to use it's idea of partitioning. Go ahead and put Linux in the extended partition, it will probably deal with it fine. >> >>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 ? > A journaling file system has a few advantages. The most important for a new user is that it recovers better from unexpected shutdowns. So if you accidently shut your system down improperly ext3 will deal with it bettter than ext2. > > > 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? The partition boundary problem is probably a difference between how Linux sees the drive geometry and how the bios reports the geometry. Though this used to be a problem, recent versions of Linux seem to deal with it just fine. I wouldn't be concerned. As Carl said, the 99M partiton is probably /boot the swap partition probably is twice your memory and everything else is installed in the remaining partition. To get a bettter idea about filesystems you might look at http://www.kernel-panic.org/Members/pacneil/beginner/node69.html and the pages that follow it. I don't remember if you said why you wanted to reinstall FC3. As I understand you already have it running. Is something not working right for you, or are we talking about two different systems? What are you trying to accomplish? -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. - Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
