From: smertz <smertens@mho.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitioning
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:02:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d33lei$ias$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6FD667B200BDF4F964C1BA77B796CE20F5E7C@cnbmail2.city.north-bay.on.ca>
Mike Turcotte wrote:
> Many new Serial ATA controllers have their modules listed as SCSI
> devices, I am not sure why, I think it has to do with their standards or
> something. This is normal. Also, what the auto partitioning did was
> create a 100 Mbyte partition for use as /boot, and the rest of the drive
> allocated as LVM (Logical Volume Manager). What you do is create virtual
> file systems inside the LVM (such as /, /usr, /var, /home, whatever).
> This quickly becoming the norm in the Linux community.
Is there a command to see how the LV partitioning was done by the
installer? If so what is it? I would think the installer did put a
/var/home/etc there.
THX
>
> Mike.Turcotte@cityofnorthbay.ca
> http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-newbie-
>>owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of smertz
>>Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:18 AM
>>To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
>>Subject: Partitioning
>>
>>I noticed after installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4
>>(Nahant) last week when I do a fdisk -l that the automatic
>
> partitioning
>
>>might not have done such a good job of partitioning out my 200 GIG HD.
>>
>>[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
>>
>>Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>>/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
>>/dev/sda2 14 24321 195254010 8e Linux LVM
>>[root@localhost ~]#
>>
>>
>>Shouldn't there normally be a few more partitions like /swap /usr etc?
>>If so is it possible to manipulate these post install? Or better to
>
> go
>
>>back and re-install and manually do the partitions? Either way I would
>>appreciate any advice on allocating the HD out. There will be no
>
> other
>
>>OS on this drive/machine, just RH.
>>
>>Also I'm curious why my Hard drives are listed as sda1. These are ATA
>>drives. Just looked at the drive they are the new SATA drives and may
>>be recognized incorrectly.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-07 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-07 14:32 Partitioning Mike Turcotte
2005-04-07 16:02 ` smertz [this message]
2005-04-07 16:50 ` Partitioning James Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-07 14:18 Partitioning smertz
2004-01-25 13:37 partitioning S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-25 16:08 ` partitioning chuck
2004-01-25 16:42 ` partitioning Ray Olszewski
2004-01-25 16:53 ` partitioning S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-26 0:27 ` partitioning Ken Moffat
2004-01-26 15:04 ` partitioning Hal MacArgle
2004-01-26 17:16 ` partitioning Ken Moffat
2004-01-27 19:16 ` partitioning Hal MacArgle
2004-01-27 20:19 ` partitioning pa3gcu
2002-08-10 0:58 Partitioning Natarajan K
2002-08-09 15:52 ` Partitioning Ray Olszewski
2002-08-09 18:31 ` Partitioning Riley Williams
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