On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Mark Srebnik wrote: > 1) Don't remember creating hda3, the extended partition. Do I need > this one? Seems like a lot of space for it... > A hard drive is seperated in Primary and Logical Partitions. You can only have 4 Primary Partitions, to use more you have to use Logical Partitions. The Extended one "enables" the logicals, so every Logical is within the Extended. That's why you need this one.
> 2) The numbering sequence for my existing partitions (ex: hda9 is > for /home) seems a bit jumbled...does that matter? It does'nt matter, where your /home directory is located. But nonetheless I think, you have too many partitions^^. > > If so, is there an easy way to renumber them to make more sense? > I don't think, because the partitions use certain blocks on your hard drive and changing them would destroy your harddrive. There is a way to resize ext partitions, but it involves much calculating and luck. > 3) LFS instructions say to create a separate partition of about 5GB > using ext2 filesystem. > > Since I've already created my other partitions using ext3 filsystem, > wondering whether the new LFS partition can use the swap partition > I've already created? > Yes, the swap partition is just an "extension" for you RAM, it will be cleaned at every shutdown/reboot. So you might use it with every operating system that supports swap, LFS does'nt need an swap partition of its own. > Also, to create this partition, would the easiest way be to delete > or resize the existing extended partition mentioned above in > question 1 or ??? > You shouldn't delete your extended partition, if you want to keep the data in all partitions from hda5 on. However, I would recommend to reinstall Debian with fewer partitions. If you have several Operating Systems and all of them have several partitions it might become a bit tricky to handle all these partitions. I hope I helped you, correct me if I'm wrong at some point. Marius -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
