On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > SnapafunFrank wrote: > > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >> Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in > >> Mandrake now - no just kidding. > >> > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda > >> > >> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. > >> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > >> and could in certain setups cause problems with: > >> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) > >> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > >> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > >> > >> Command (m for help): p > >> > >> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes > >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders > >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were > > after? Strictly your call here. > > > >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id > >> System [ Franks approx partition sizes ] > >> /dev/hda1 * 1 2364 18988798+ 7 > >> HPFS/NTFS [19gig ] > >> /dev/hda2 2423 4865 19623397+ 5 > >> Extended [20gig ] > >> /dev/hda5 2423 3186 6136798+ 83 > >> Linux [6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ] > >> /dev/hda6 4808 4854 377496 83 > >> Linux [350MB ] > >> /dev/hda7 4855 4865 88326 82 Linux > >> swap [82MB ] > >> /dev/hda8 3187 3326 1124518+ 82 Linux > >> swap [1.1gig ] > >> /dev/hda9 3327 4807 11896101 83 > >> Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much] > >> ~ [ This is your /home partition ] > >> > >> Partition table entries are not in disk order > >> > >> I can breathe now I am out of fdisk! > >> > >> regards > >> Rosemary > > > > OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see. > > > > You have a 40gig hard drive: > > > > You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions: > > > > You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not > > essential: more about this later. > > Not realy. You can have up to 4, but if you use an extended partition, > it uses 1 primary partition "slot". > > > You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last > > I heard: > > Each partition in the extended partition is a logical partition. This > system has 5 logical partitions in the extended partition. > > > You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended > > partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic > > partitions: > > > > You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough > > especially when one of them appears huge. > > About the only reasion for the second swap partition would be if using > Software Suspend. You need a swap partition a bit larger then your > physical memory to hold the currend system state when you suspend to > disk. But I don't think too many people are using it yet. But 1.1G does > look a bit large. On the other hand, the 82MB swap partition is realy > too small to be usefull...
I wonder if this happened at the attempt to get the mouse going ... > > > Generally the rules here are: > > > > No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an > > extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic partitions. > > > > You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is > > enough. > > > > Partition numbering is: > > primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition ) > > With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16 > > Logical partitions, not LBA. LBA is a way of accessing a hard drive, not > a partition type. (Logical Block Allocation if I remember right...) > > > The only partitions you have correct here are: > > > > /dev/hda1 * [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ] > > /dev/hda1 [ One of your swap partitions and I say this is correct > > because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5 > > times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ] > > I think you mean dha8 here, and not hda1. > > > Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other > > words ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command > > seeking info. ] > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > > /dev/hda5 5.8G 1.7G 3.9G 30% / [ My rough math for > > the above table isn't to far off here afterall.] > > > > /dev/hda9 12G 170M 12G 2% /home [ You must work out > > what you really will be using here because this is far to big at > > present ~ only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.] > > > > SO............. > > Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may > > prefer this but fstab has it entered. > > > > Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which > > directory this relates to. [ See below ] > > This partition was being mounted on /mnt before we disabled it. > > Mikkel
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