From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: smertz Subject: Re: Partitioning Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:02:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: smertens@mho.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > > linux-newbie" in > >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs