THANK YOU, Marius, for your very helpful reply. Understand partitions better now....
Not sure that I want to go through re-installing Debian again though, but maybe I should???.... ;-) Mark Silicone Valley Digerati & Linux Noob -----Original Message----- >From: Marius Meinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 24, 2008 11:35 AM >To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Setting Up Partitions for LFS > > >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
