For those who may still interested on partitioning
Below are the result I got of lm7.2 expert mode
partitioning from wut I described in the prior
posting of mine.
I actually want my /boot to be /dev/hde3 and dun
like mah /dev/hde2 to be replaced to /dev/hde5,
as DiskDrak? has done for me.
Short, the best result u can get from that mode is
may be like:
/dev/hde1 the untouchable M$ c:\ partition
all the rest as logical partition inside
the extended partition.
Can see below:
# /etc/fstab
/dev/hde1 /mnt/ntc ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/ntd ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hde6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hde7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hde8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hde9 /z reiserfs defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
# the first 2 lines with ntfs were appended manually for
# automounting, add something to /etc/filesystems
# if it dun automount after reboot
------- change thema --------
For those who still considering how the partitions should look
like. Next reinstall I will do my partitioning from da prompt
with fdisk, cfdisk first b4 beginning my next installation.
(use lilo-boot-disk,cdrom.img,rescue.img to get booted in first)
My partitions should look something like:
/dev/hde1 c:\, nt installer can format largest 4GB
/dev/hde2 d:\, that is why the 2nd nt-space required
/dev/hde3 /boot
/dev/hde4 the wrapper for extended partition
/dev/hde5 swap
/dev/hde6 /
/dev/hde7 /r2, 2nd root partition
/dev/hde8 /r3, 3rd root partition
(problem: dun use Win$os to create the partitions for linux!)
Consideration:
If the system to be installed for hiring many users,
then /home is meaningful, maybe even mount another
/dev/hdf to the /home.
For experiment installation I'd prefer to have 2 or
even more root-partitions, than to have (/usr,/var),
if the HD-space is big enoo
LILO/grub can be configured to boot image with diverse
root-partition as root !
U may then have different version of linux distribution
or divers distribution installed in ur root-partitions.
/boot can be shared for all roots partitions, no question
/usr,/var are may be meaningful, if u desired to bastle
your own linux distribution, (sucks the packages say
from sunsite, metalab ...
If /usr are not clean then easily format, install, ..
Other consideration is may be, if the root partition
is too large and u are planning to use ext2 for that,
because onces u do something wrong with the shutdown,
next time have to wait long untill the e2fschk-ing
process ends, the problem could be solved if reiserFS
is used, as some1 mentioned b4...
Otherwise, I dun think it would be a good Idea,
to share the /usr, /var for diverse root partition.
I mean, u maybe dun want to delete the old partition
before u get satisfied with installing a new one on
other partition ?
For security reason, I just do periodically
tar -cvf - /etc | gzip -c > /boot/etc.tgz
tar -cvf - /root| gzip -c > /boot/root1.tgz
The /boot partition is that partition that should
always be there, while the other partitions are
being delete, repartitioned ...
For ppl who use mobos from the dinos time
I mean prior to '95/94, could still have bios that
dun support LBA, in this case the /boot partition
should be inside the fisrt 1024 cylinder in order
to be able to get booted ..
I think, that should be one of the reason why redhat
installer would create that /boot partition as an
extra partition automatically if u let it do
the autopartitioning.
--
Nope envelope, stamply ..
Those ones, cvleme are actually nope so nope welcomin
I mean to let da option open, sporadish so,
I'd be bored, else ..
Was never so frndly b4, nope so eno..,
Things there, keyboard 1b1 protokol implemented ?
I mean, at least, 1 after another, man
I'd like to have absence a while so sporadish
;; ding ding
dog Biter Org
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