Hi Jay, Thanks for your detail information. On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:19, Jay Daniels wrote: - snip - > > I don't know why the extended partition is type Win95 Ext'd (LBA). > Same here on my 4 SCSI drives, but it seems to cause no problems. > > Perhaps someone can explain this (or I should read the rest of this > thread), why redhat linux names it's extended partition Win95 Ext'd (LBA)? > > I understand what he is saying. Perhaps he should use fdisk to create > the partition if he just wants 4 partitions. Next time when I install a new version of RH I will create partitions first with 'fdisk'. Have you tried installing RH direct from its website before? Not from source code because I don't have a fast box. I have experienced installing Gentoo 1.4 from source code direct from its website. It took me more than 60 hours to complete. I am interested to have a similar test on RH. > But be warned that with > big partitions even though the drive is not full, you can still run out > of inodes (especially on ide drives) and the system will crash if you > have a lot of small files such as those created by mailman! > > Tip: When checking disk space always remember to check inode use when > dealing with large partitions: > df -i I have no idea how my last crash happened. I am worrying on worm's attack. I made following test; # df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hde3 661248 171460 489788 26% / /dev/hde1 26104 41 26063 1% /boot /dev/hde5 512000 9734 502266 2% /home none 31916 1 31915 1% /dev/shm What does the last roll represented? What is /dev/shm > Of course it's trial and error - creating partitions and you sometimes > end up with wasted disk space. > > My current system: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 15116868 3409528 10939436 24% / > /dev/sda1 295564 5872 274432 3% /boot > /dev/sda2 74587868 1175800 69623140 2% /home > /dev/sda8 4380004 32828 4124680 1% /home/web > none 1032200 0 1032200 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda7 350021 152 331798 1% /tmp > /dev/sda5 10080488 479720 9088700 6% /var > > As you can see, I will probably never use that 300MB /boot and 350MB > /tmp! home could have been divided better too, or I could have left a > partition open for further expansion. I did leave /home/web on a > different partition just in case /var/www gets full then I could move > it to /home/web and ln -s /home/web /var/www > > You may not realize from the partition table above, this is a 4x36 gig > scsi w/raid5. The operating system sees this raid device as a huge > single disk! That is the same on my RAID-0 box which is running Windoz. 2 hard drives looks as a big drive. I have not figured out a solution to run Linux on software RAID because I can't find a driver for my RAID card (software RAID) to run Linux - snip - > As for the type (perhaps it's just a label) of the extended partition > showing up as Win95 Ext'd LBA, it seems to have no affect on the > system. In other words you don't really have a problem at all. Noted with thanks B.R. Stephen -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
