Re: Disk Partitioning ? From a Newbie
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:59:29 -0500
"Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <Jon.Irish@AMD.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
> scheme. After reading the documentation, I thought that I would try to
> partition it with partitions for: BOOT, SWAP, /, VAR, USR, TMP, and
> HOME. I tried numerous permutations of using Primary and Logical
> partitions, but after initializing the SWAP and / partition, I always
> get Mount Failed: Invalid Argument messages for the rest of the
> partitions. I am doing the partitioning with cfdisk. I have tried the
> following scenarios with no luck:
> SWAP = Primary, All Others = Logical
> SWAP = Primary, / = Primary, All Others = Logical
> SWAP = Primary, / = Primary, /boot = Primary, All Others = Logical
>
> Obviously, I am not grasping a very key concept here. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
Do the other partitions have filesystems on them?
Kevin
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