RE: Partitioning

Mike Turcotte
2005-04-07T14:32:04Z

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.

Michael Turcotte
Information Systems
City of North Bay
200 McIntyre St. E
PO Box 360
North Bay, Ontario
P1B 8H8

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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