Re: Setup w/large hard drives
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote:
> > Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
> > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
>
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
> the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more
> partitions than necessary:
>
> Device Filesystem Size Mountpoint Contains
> -----------------------------------------------------
> /dev/sda1 ext2 5mb /kernels kernels only
> /dev/sda2 ext2 8gb / Everything
> /dev/sda3 swap 100mb none Swap space
Why do you need a separate partition to boot from?
I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders,
obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb
too.
Partition Table for /dev/hdb
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
1 0x00 0 1 1 0x05 127 63 397 8064 3201408
2 0x80 0 1 398 0xA5 127 63 778 3209472 3072384
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
5 0x00 1 2 1 0x83 127 63 204 63 1644992
6 0x00 1 1 205 0x83 127 63 382 63 1435329
7 0x00 1 1 383 0x82 127 63 397 63 120897
I can boot from /dev/hdb2 (FreeBSD) too, and it's the second half
of a 3.2gb drive.
Hamish
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