fedora-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 249
Michael P Angell
4magnell at ruraltel.net
Fri Sep 28 02:53:38 UTC 2007
>
> Michael P Angell wrote:
> > Pretty much a partitioning question. 2 or 6 partitions? Usage and or
> > benefit of higher lower number of partitions? Didn't Red Hat install
> > multiply partitions in earlier versions
>
> Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to Linux/Fedora, so take my advice with a
> grain of salt
>
> /boot is nice to have on a separate partition for various reasons. It
> doesn't grow out of bounds, either, so it's an easy choice.
> Everything else lives perfectly well on / most of the time
> I've heard somewhere that it's nice to have /home on a separate
> partition for smoother upgrades (read: reinstalls), but that seems like
> a lot of work, since both /home and /usr like to grow in size.. It's
> definitely easier to make a mistake than in case of /boot.
>
>
>
> Of course none of this would be an issue if there weren't any legal
> problems with a certain filesystem that will go unmentioned so as to not
> start another flame war :)
>
>
> HTH
>
I have no idea what legal problems your talking about. But reinstall
hint got me on the right track to understanding why one would separate
things. So 4 partitions is max with 1 able to be partitioned again? That
is a little confusing, partition a partition?
Parted -l gives me 2 primary partitions but the first one starts at
32.3kb?
[root at localhost ~]# parted -l
Model: ATA SAMSUNG SV6003H (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 60.1GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot
2 107MB 60.1GB 59.9GB primary lvm
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