Re: Partitioning

[smertz <smertens@mho.com>]

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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