ThinKer wrote:
No, you don't have anything confused. (I originally suggested logical partitions, because I'm not used to working with multiple drives, and so it was just habit to make multiple logicals on /dev/hda, but if you don't go over four partitions, I'd stick with keeping them primary.)Thanks to input from Kent and Bret, I have decided to do the following ... / 200 MB /dev/hda1 primary /usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 primary /var 500MB /dev/hda3 primary /tmp 100MB /dev/hda4 primary swap /dev/hdc1 1.2GB primary /home /dev/hdd1 4.1GB primary Questions... 1. When I delete the drive and choose 'New' to create the partitions, the system asks 'primary or secondary. I am going with primary for everything since I won't have more than 4 partitions in the first drive, and the second and third drives will stand on their own. Is this correct thinking or do I have something confused?
Unless you have a reason not to, put it at the beginning. Some folks create swap first, and put it at the end of free space on a blank drive, because there's supposedly some advantage to having the swap space at the outer edge of the drive. Of course, others will say you get your best performance when the swap is on the inner edge. Still others will say it should be smack in the middle. It has to do with how much travel the drive head has to do to get to the swap space.2. For / after I select primary and say I want it to be 200MB in size, do I add this partition at the begining or at the end of free space ?
Putting your partitions at the beginning of the free space is like putting the milk in the front of the dairy case at the convenience store. The stocker will put the first milk in the front free space, and then the next milk in the front of the remaining free space, etc. If he wanted, he could put the second milk at the end of the remaining free space, but then he's got to reach over it to put more milk in, and the date order gets all out of sequence, etc.
3. Which of these am I supposed to make bootable?
The first partition, which is / according to your specs above.
Thanks, Thinker.
-- Kent West (westk@acu.edu)