Ken Moffat wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:07:22PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
In this case, "msdos" is the type, or class, of your disk partitions.
I don't see why you look for the linux kernel in partition 6 (msdos6) and
set then your root filesystem in sda2. Maybe you are using logical
partitions?
That doesn't seem _so_ unusual, although it was definitely worth
you mentioning it (in case it is part of the problem).
When I first started using linux, I had a mix of primary and
logical msdos partitions (nowadays, I only use logical unless windows
is also on that box).
Better to use gpt. There's no need for two types of partitions.
Disks used to get slower, the further into
the disk you put the filesystem [ as reported, in those days, with
hdparm ] - smaller tracks on the inside, so more frequent head
movement. So, I consider that putting /boot at the end of the disk
is worthwhile - it only gets used when booting, which is
intrinsically slow (most time spent in the bios), and when writing
out a new kernel.
Whether it makes any real difference with modern disks, I do not
know.
Doubtful. The boot is only reading a ~5MB kernel. I always advocate
using /dev/sda1 as boot:
sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
...
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 34 1987 977.0 KiB EF02 grub
2 1988 392612 190.7 MiB 8300 boot
3 392614 39455114 18.6 GiB 8300 debian
4 39455115 78517615 18.6 GiB 8302 home
5 78517616 82423871 1.9 GiB 8200 Linux swap
6 82423872 124366911 20.0 GiB 8300 lfs-svn
7 124366912 166309951 20.0 GiB 8300 lubuntu
8 166309952 271167551 50.0 GiB 8300 usr-src
9 271169536 313112575 20.0 GiB 8300 Fedora
10 313112576 355055615 20.0 GiB 8300 lfs-20140511
11 355055616 376027135 10.0 GiB 8200 Big swap
12 376027136 417970175 20.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
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