new disk layout

[Mick M.]

> On 07/01/2009 03:28 PM, Mick M.
> wrote:
> > Hi;
> >   I would like some input on disk
> partitions.
> > I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine,
> >
> > At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2
> sata 250M and 1TB.
> > The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA
> drives.
> >
> > I want to remove the IDE drive and install XPx64 on
> the new drive as a VirtualBox image.
> > I also want to install F11 on that drive.
> >
> > My other SATA drive is F10, I want to leave that alone
> and dual boot F10/F11.
> >
> > OK  - what do you suggest for partitions on this
> drive?
> > I want to use "regular" partitions - not the default
> LVM stuff.
> >
> > I was thinking:
> > 1 /boot ext3 200M
> > 2 swap 82    4G ( I have 2G memory)
> > 3 / ext4    250G
> > 4 extended   rest about 750G with ext3
> 
> >
> > Will VirtualBox work with ext4?
> >   

I went ahead and installed F11 on the new sata drive:
[root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00e8e373

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          25      200781   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              26         550     4217062+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             551       30401   239778157+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008ead9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          26      208813+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              27        1071     8393962+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            1072       33707   262148670   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4           33708      121601   706008555    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5           33708       72871   314584798+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb6           72872      121601   391423693+  83  Linux

It installed fine (thanks developers!! very nice).
I formatted /dev/sdb3 as ext4, the others ext3.
sdb5 and sdb6 are empty ext3, I may delete them and just go sdb5 ext4.

The sata problem with xp refers to the install, it needs drivers.
However under VirtualBox it works just fine.
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa Virt*
VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora11-1.x86_64

I got lucky in that VirtualBox had just gone to 3.0.
I used an expanding drive up to 10G (all defaults).

I had to "rescue" the system after I removed the IDE drive.
Then edit  /boot/grub/grub.conf to get F10 working.

So far ext4 is transparent, no programs flake or die because of it.

The only problem was very slow firefox dns, solved in about:config.
(thanks to Tim Largy on this list)

I followed the MJM guide for F11 for multimedia and am very happy.
Plus I have another IDE drive to stick in my old Snap server 4100.

I dont like the LVM stuff, rescue cd's fail with it.

As far as swap goes - this is a 1000G drive! 2xram (I hope to get 4G total) seems standard.


Mick