Roger Heflin wrote:
I would also suggest not using a primary partition for swap. For that matter, I have drives that are formatted with /boot as the only primary partition (except the extended partition) and everything else as a logical partition in the extended partition. One thing to keep in mind is that you are going to run into problems if you have more then 16 partitions on the drive. (Not counting the extended partition.) I think this is a limit in the SCSI drivers, and allmost all drives are now handled as SCSI drives now.Nigel Henry wrote:This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that I've built, so am a bit in the dark.Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition) sda5, and 6, are / , and /home for another linux distro sda7, and 8, are / , and /home for another linux distro sda9, and 10, are / , and /home for yet another linux distro sda11, and 12, are / , and /home for another linux distroThere is still showing 61020 MB of free space on the drive, but trying to create a new partition for the install of Fedora 9, with 10000MB for / I get the following output. Written in freehand.Error Partitioningould not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create partition for /.I'm sure I've seen some stuff about partition limits on SATA drives, but can't remember where. If there are limits, are there any workarounds so that I can use this 61+GB of freespace.Thanks for any suggestions. Nigel.It is not a SATA thing.You only get 4 primary partitions, usually the last of the primaries is an extended partition containing *all* of the rest of the space, if the last partition does not contain all of the rest of the space, well, you cannot use it without repartitioning.There does not seem to be a limit on the number of the partitions in an extended partition, but there could be limits in some of the tools to deal with things.There is a limit of the total number of partitions that a single disk can have and I think that was 16 so your aren't quite there yet.I would suggest not creating /home for each installation (just for the first one) and then changing fstab to mount a shared home, the only steps that would need to be done to properly do this would be to make sure the UID/users on all distributions are the same, and make sure fstab on each distribution has it added as an entry.Roger
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