On Saturday 08 September 2007 01:45, Mike McMullin wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 00:49 -0400, Bob S wrote: > > Hello SuSE people, > > > > This is especially for you guys/gals that run 3or 4 os's on a big hard > > drive. How do you handle the primary and extended partitions? > > > > A while back I purchased a 250 GB Sata drive, intending to install > > different os's and or versions of SuSE. I installed 10.2 on my shiny new > > drive but I stupidly partitioned 3 primaries, /, /swap, and /home, and > > used the fourth primary for the extended partition. Dumb move - Out of > > partitions with about 150GB of free space. (I run 10.0 on another small > > IDE drive) > Mike,thanks for replying. You have answered some of my nagging questions about usability.
> I've got a big HD on my main system, and I'm running 5. Two Os's on > one one hd and three are on the big drive. The one with three > partitions I set up as such: hdb1=swap, > hdb2=/ for 10.1, hdb3=/home for 10.1, then there is an extended > partition where hdb5=/ for 10.2, hdb6=/home for 10.2, hdb7=/ for > LinuxXP. I do have on hda2 a swap partition, on hda1 Windows XP, on > hda3 Ubuntu root, and on hda4 Ubuntu Home. That explains quite a bit. > > > Now, I guess I could move my /home and /swap into the extended partition > > to free up two primary partitions. Hopefully that would give me access to > > the rest of the unused space on the drive. I always liked having my /home > > on it's own partition to guard it from mishap. Now, here are some of my > > questions: > > > > Is the /home as safe residing in the extended partition? I could never > > delete or change the extended partition because they would wipe out /home > > - right? > > Yes to both, almost. You could always backup your /home partition to > move it to a new hard drive. Strategies for this have been discussed ad > nauseum on this list over the past 18 or so months. Yeah, I guess I could do that. Move it inside the extended partition or another drive, but then I couldn't use that empty primary because it would be isolated between the /swap and the extended partition and not be able to access the free space left on the disk behind the extended partition as Felix explained. Wonderful ! What dumbness in the original partitioning scheme I made. > > > Is it a good idea to have /swap on the extended partition? Do you use the > > same /swap for all of the os's? (e.g. like my /swap for 10.0 on the IDE > > drive?) > > I have my swap in a primary partition on any drive that I have a swap > on, and I have the 4 Linux's use the swap partition on hdb. I'm keeping > the one on hda there in case I remove my hdb. I'll tweak Ubuntu to use > it using a live cd to make the edit to fstab. OK, so I really only need one /swap for 10.0, 10.2, and the future 10.3, right? > > > How do you manage to run 3 or 4 os variants on just 4 primary partitions? > > I give my heavy lifting/everyday Linux the primary partitions and use > the extended partition for checking out other releases/distros. Understood and appreciative of your strategy. > > > Love to hear your individual strategies. > > Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
