Hi Bob, Lot of thanks for your detail advice. On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:35, Robert L Cochran wrote: > You can only have 4 primary partitions on any drive. Within one of the > primary partitions you can create logical partitions. Check your fdisk > documentation for how to create these. Each operating system has it's > own fdisk, so if you want to create linux partitions read > > man fdisk > > or > > info fdisk > > and feel your way very carefully indeed. If you have unpartitioned free > space on your drive, it should be relatively easy to create and format > new partitions. But if the entire drive is partitioned, your job is > going to be more complicated. Noted. My hard drive is running with 4 partitions. I will try to see whether 'parted' will help. I am not experienced on FIPS. PartionMagic can do the job but on M$Win > In either case always back up your data first before playing with fdisk. Noted > Let me go a little more into this ad nauseum. > If you have a spare hard drive laying around unused, why not use it to > experiment with? Remove your 'production drive' (thus preserving it's > contents) and install the 'spare drive' in it's place. Then do Linux > installs on it using Disk Druid. This lets you play and have loads of fun. > > You can also use a spare drive as a backup (straight copy of files from > one drive to another) or 'upgrade' drive, as in jumping from a 20 Gb to > 60 Gb drive: in either case, create the same partitions as on the source > drive and then copy these partitions to it. See the Hard Disk Upgrade > How-To on the Linux Documentation Project. I have experience on cloning a hard drive to a new drive but having not done to clone a hard drive of 4 partitions to a new drive with 7 partitions. I will try to see what to do. Have you had any advice. Thanks B.R. Stephen. > Bob Cochran > Greenbelt, Maryland, USA > Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi Joe, > > > > I am running 4 partitions on my OS, namely boot, swap, root and home. > > 'fdisk' only allows 4 partitons. How can I create additional partitions > > such /var /tmp /usr /etc > > > > Thanks > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:00, Joe wrote: > > > >>Randy Chrismon wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I have two hard drives on my computer. The "master" is 30Gb and has a > >>>Windows partition on it -- although I can devote a portion of the > >>>drive to another partition. My second drive is 160Gb. Both drives are > >>>on the same controller. I can pretty much devote all of the second > >>>drive to Linux. I will be running a MySQL development server which I > >>>don't expect to have more than 2Gb data. My wife and daughter will > >>>have accounts on the Linux system. Given all the above -- and whatever > >>>else information I can provide that folks might deem appropriate -- > >>>what would you all suggest as the "best" partitioning scheme? A swap > >>>partition on the first drive? A separate home partition on the second > >>>drive? A separate partition for the MySQL data? All Linux on one big > >>>partition? > >> > >>With only 2 physical spindles you don't have a whole lot of room for > >>creativity - but definitely, put the swap partition on the first drive, > >>so it's a separate spindle for performance reasons. If you will be doing > >>much swapping, I'd put one swap partition on each spindle so they can > >>run in parallel for better performance. > >> > >>You'll want a small root partition, then add /home, /var, /tmp and /usr > >>partitions, so that they can be mounted with different options than the > >>root partition. mount all partitions with the noatime option, and mount > >>/tmp and /var with the data=writeback option. If you have room on the > >>first drive for one of these partitions it might be a good thing. I have > >>heard horror stories about ms windows though, deciding to claim part of > >>a linux partition on the sane disk as ms windows, and essentially > >>scribbling on it, so I'd be a bit leery of that. > >> > >>Joe To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
