[CVALE] Well, I think I've tried everything...

[Terry]

Hi Michael,

Don't forget that there can be only 4 primary partitions.  If you want to have more you have to make 
one of the primary partitions "extended" then add a bunch more "logical" partitions in the 
"extended" partition.  As far as I know you can't use the primary partition that you've made 
"extended" directly, can only use the logical partitions under it.

Don't forget to make a file system in each of the partitions.  It should happen as part of the 
installation.

I don't know about the 16 partition limit.  I've used 10 or 12 partitions without a problem.  I just 
use fdisk and it works fine for me.  I only have occasionally problems with resizing involving DOS 
partitions, but that's a long time known problem with workarounds.

You could put /boot closer to the beginning of the disk (lower cylinder number) but I don't know if 
that matters these days like it did in the past.  I usually put system stuff (root, boot, swap) near 
the beginning and data/application paritions afterwards.  I makes it easier to create and delete 
data partitons.  But of course the opposite would be true if one's data remained static but new 
operating systems were being deleted and added.  :-)

You appear to have a ROOT partition (/) as well as a partition called "root" mounted on ROOT (/). 
It's okay so long as know where you're mounting stuff.

Although it's Linux, don't forget to try rebooting when you make disk partition changes.

Basic stuff but it doesn't hurt to check.  I trip over simple stuff all of the time.


Terry


Gaijin wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
>      Using cfdisk, I've been trying the following:
> 
> hda1 / 10GB
> hda2  /home 30GB
> hda3 /usr/src 100GB
> hda4 /pub 100GB
> hda5 /boot 500MB
> hda6 <spare> 5GB
> hda7 /root 2.5GB
> hda14 <swap> 2GB
> 
>      Have I mistakenly heard that you can have 16 partitions on an IDE 
> hard drive?  Tried 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, then 1, 5, 6, 7, 2, etc., but 
> nothing seems to work.  About the max I can get outta cfdisk is six 
> partitions, before it starts reporting that my remaining space is 
> unusable.  Tried the 1, 5, 6, 7, and then 2, but it skips 2 and makes it 
> 3...if you know what I mean.  About the best I can get is partitions 1, 
> 5, 6, 7, 3, and 4.  Am I up against some kind of "can't cross so many 
> cylinders" limit?  No problems with a 248GB EXT3 and a swap.  Was hoping 
> to at least make my fstab file look nice.  This problem has been dribing 
> me nutz ever since I ported to Linux.  Anyone know the secret to an 
> orderly partition table?  TIA,
> 
>          Michael
> 
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