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From: David Grant <davidgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] partition scheme
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:45:44
Message-Id: d18977190610171440x1e5a5963o10114589818acbc6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] partition scheme by Thufir
1 I'd like to share mine with the world:
2
3 Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
4 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
5 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
6
7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
8 /dev/sda1 * 1 4904 39391348+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
9 /dev/sda2 4905 4917 104422+ 83 Linux
10 /dev/sda3 4918 5161 1959930 82 Linux swap / Solaris
11 /dev/sda4 5162 30401 202740300 5 Extended
12 /dev/sda5 5162 10025 39070079+ 83 Linux
13 /dev/sda6 10026 14889 39070079+ 8e Linux LVM
14 /dev/sda7 14890 19753 39070079+ 8e Linux LVM
15 /dev/sda8 19754 24617 39070079+ 8e Linux LVM
16 /dev/sda9 24618 29481 39070079+ 83 Linux
17 /dev/sda10 29482 30401 7389899+ 83 Linux
18
19 # df
20 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
21 /dev/sda5 38G 258M 38G 1% /
22 udev 442M 184K 442M 1% /dev
23 /dev/sda2 99M 15M 79M 16% /boot
24 /dev/mapper/vg-opt 30G 3.2G 27G 11% /opt
25 /dev/mapper/vg-usr 20G 7.7G 13G 39% /usr
26 /dev/mapper/vg-home 20G 5.5G 15G 28% /home
27 /dev/mapper/vg-var 20G 12G 8.6G 58% /var
28 /dev/mapper/vg-tmp 10G 356M 9.7G 4% /tmp
29 shm 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm
30
31 sda6-sda10 are all separate partitions so that I have the flexibility
32 to throw them into the LVM if I want or use them for something else
33 later.
34
35 Dave
36
37 On 10/16/06, Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com> wrote:
38 > For hdb, what's a good partitioning scheme? I want to go with reiser, and
39 > keep the vfat (for win2k). I have 512MB RAM, should I change the swap
40 > size? Is there a big advantage to using LVM versus just a regular root
41 > partition?
42 >
43 > I figure I'll use hda just for storage of stuff prior to burning to disc.
44 > For a little while, I'll have a triple boot system.
45 >
46 >
47 > [root@arrakis ~]#
48 > [root@arrakis ~]#
49 > [root@arrakis ~]# parted
50 > GNU Parted 1.7.1
51 > Using /dev/hda
52 > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
53 > (parted) print all
54 >
55 > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB
56 > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
57 > Partition Table: msdos
58 >
59 > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
60 > 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot
61 > 2 107MB 80.0GB 79.9GB primary lvm
62 >
63 >
64 >
65 > Disk /dev/hdb: 30.8GB
66 > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
67 > Partition Table: msdos
68 >
69 > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
70 > 1 32.3kB 11.7GB 11.7GB primary fat32 boot, lba
71 > 2 11.7GB 11.8GB 107MB primary ext2
72 > 3 11.8GB 12.3GB 452MB primary linux-swap
73 > 4 12.3GB 30.7GB 18.4GB primary ext3
74 >
75 >
76 > Error: Unable to open /dev/md0 - unrecognised disk label.
77 >
78 > Warning: Unable to open /dev/fd0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/fd0 has
79 > been opened read-only.
80 > Error: Unable to open /dev/fd0 - unrecognised disk label.
81 >
82 > (parted) quit
83 > Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
84 >
85 > [root@arrakis ~]#
86 > [root@arrakis ~]# date
87 > Tue Oct 17 07:37:56 IST 2006
88 > [root@arrakis ~]#
89 > [root@arrakis ~]#
90 >
91 >
92 >
93 > thanks,
94 >
95 > Thufir
96 >
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