Re: partitions and lilo

[csj@mindgate.net]

Hello Jaye,
? here

Well I guess I may have shared a partition or two. I'm not sure what exactly you
mean by "same root partition." But here's the [annotated] view from
Mandrake.

[penguin@localhost penguin]$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8             380M   49M  310M  14% /
/dev/hda6              15M  1.9M   12M  13% /boot
/dev/hda17            687M  645M  6.8M  99% /burn [shared non-sys]
/dev/hda16            633M  495M  106M  82% /doc [shared non-sys]
/dev/hda9             633M  182M  419M  30% /home [shared]
/dev/hda14            980M  815M  116M  88% /install [shared non-sys]
/dev/hda13            980M  253M  678M  27% /opt [shared]
/dev/hda19            2.7G  2.0G  577M  78% /redhat [shared non-sys]
/dev/hda7             144M  8.0M  129M   6% /root 
/dev/hda18            2.4G  862M  1.4G  37% /storm [shared, storm's /]
/dev/hda11            167M   22M  136M  14% /tmp
/dev/hda10            3.8G  1.6G  2.0G  44% /usr
/dev/hda12            167M   75M   84M  47% /var
/dev/hda15            4.8G  3.2G  1.4G  70% /web [shared, non-sys]
[+++shared swap partition]

I'm a reinstall freak, which accounts for the inordinately large number of
partitions. Storm is mounted as /storm on my Mandrake, while Mandrake is
largely invisible to Storm [except for /home]. I placed my Staroffice 5.2 in
/opt, usable both ways.

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> Hello    ?,
> 
> Look again closely at my partition tables. I created ext2 partitions
> for each of my linux distros and seperate boots as well. The only 
> thing shared here is my swap file by all the distros. So I have it
> as hda1=win98, hda12 through hda15 for my linux ROOT partitions.
> 
> I think what you might have done was installed two distros on the
> same root partition, and I don't know how well it would fly!
> 
> Good luck