adding a primary partition

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 30.07.2005 schrieb Duncan Lithgow um 12:07:

> I want to ads another primary partition, will this fu*k up my partition 
> numbering?
> 
> I currently have: (output from parted print)
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 2          0.031  59914.292  primary   fat32       lba
> 1      59914.292  60016.267  primary   ext3        boot
> 3      60016.267 107418.999  extended              lba
> 5      60016.298  61012.485  logical   linux-swap
> 6      61012.516  71515.920  logical   ext3
> 7      71515.951  72614.113  logical   ext3
> 8      72614.145  83117.548  logical   ext3        boot
> 9      83117.580  84215.742  logical   ext3
> 10     84215.773  94719.177  logical   ext3
> 11     94719.208  95817.370  logical   ext3
> 12     95817.401 106320.805  logical   ext3
> 13    106320.836 107418.999  logical   ext3
> 
> If I add one using parted wil it be /dev/hdb4 and sit after all the 
> others? Or should I move everything along a bit and get it in nearer the 
> front - make any difference?
> 
> (don't tell anyone but I'm doing this to try out BSD ;-)
> 
> Thanks - Duncan

In any case *BSD requires a primary partition (while it is called
"slice"). I suspect you have free space on your hard drive at the end,
beyond "107418.999". The additional primary partition will then be at
the end and not arranged in between. Partition tools may claim the
partition table to be out of order (mixed ordering). Whether that could
be a problem? Don't know for sure. As long as you don't delete existing
partitions (by accident) Fedora should stay as it is. Using partition
labels it should even be tolerant if the order of partitions would
change. I personally would give a spare disk the preference when playing
with *BSD partitions the first time.
In any case be _very_ sensible and careful to not loose your data! I say
that as a warning as partitioning from *BSD may be confusing when doing
this the first time.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-2.html

That could be helpful.
In any way, have fun :)

Alexander


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