[opensuse] Hard drive partitioning question
When getting my desktop ready for openSUSE 11.0, resizing the windoze partition to make more room in /home, I noticed two partitions on the hard drive that I did not create, but what is even weider is when I add up all the partition sizes it says the drive is bigger than it really is. I have the output of YaST partitioner, and fdisk all look a bit odd to me: YaST2 /dev/sda 111.7 GB WDC-ED1200JS-00N /dev/sda1 38.3 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C /dev/sda2 68.4 GB Extended /dev/sda5 2.0 GB Linux swap swap /dev/sda6 20.0 GB Linux native /dev/sda7 18.5 GB Linux native / /dev/sda8 27.8 GB Linux native /home fdisk Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xb9290507 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5009 40229102 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 5663 14593 71738257+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 5663 5924 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 5925 8535 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda7 8536 10958 19462716 83 Linux /dev/sda8 10959 14593 29198106 83 Linux I know I did not create the sda2 and sda6 partitions on the disk, and seeing as how sda6 is not mounted anywhere I can just put that space to good use somewhere, but I don't know about the extended partition is there a way I can check and see what is is for? -- "We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." Karl Popper
Adam Jimerson wrote:
When getting my desktop ready for openSUSE 11.0, resizing the windoze partition to make more room in /home, I noticed two partitions on the hard drive that I did not create, but what is even weider is when I add up all the partition sizes it says the drive is bigger than it really is. I have the output of YaST partitioner, and fdisk all look a bit odd to me:
YaST2 /dev/sda 111.7 GB WDC-ED1200JS-00N /dev/sda1 38.3 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C /dev/sda2 68.4 GB Extended /dev/sda5 2.0 GB Linux swap swap /dev/sda6 20.0 GB Linux native /dev/sda7 18.5 GB Linux native / /dev/sda8 27.8 GB Linux native /home
Why is /dev/sda6 unused? And I would have made /dev/sda5 larger...so that Installed memory + swap = 4 GB (for 32-bit systems without PAE) And larger for 32-bit systems with PAE and 64-bt systems. This will keep Mozilla-family browsers from causing a crash by running you out of virtual memory as quickly. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 05:07:51 am Matt Archer wrote:
Why is /dev/sda6 unused?
And I would have made /dev/sda5 larger...so that
Installed memory + swap = 4 GB (for 32-bit systems without PAE)
And larger for 32-bit systems with PAE and 64-bt systems.
This will keep Mozilla-family browsers from causing a crash by running you out of virtual memory as quickly.
Sda6 is unused because I did not create it and did not know that it existed until yesterday when I opened up the partitioner. Seeing as how I the computer is 32 bit without PAE, and the only time I have problems with a web browser crashing wether it is Firefox or Konqueror is when I run into a flash video and that is rare a 2 GB swap is doing well for my needs. -- "We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." Karl Popper
Adam Jimerson wrote:
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 05:07:51 am Matt Archer wrote:
Why is /dev/sda6 unused?
And I would have made /dev/sda5 larger...so that
Installed memory + swap = 4 GB (for 32-bit systems without PAE)
And larger for 32-bit systems with PAE and 64-bt systems.
This will keep Mozilla-family browsers from causing a crash by running you out of virtual memory as quickly.
Sda6 is unused because I did not create it and did not know that it existed until yesterday when I opened up the partitioner. Seeing as how I the computer is 32 bit without PAE, and the only time I have problems with a web browser crashing wether it is Firefox or Konqueror is when I run into a flash video and that is rare a 2 GB swap is doing well for my needs.
Disk space is cheap. US $0.30 / Gigabyte Maximize your swap so that installed memory + swap = 4 GB But as Carlos said, first see if you can mount /dev/sda6 and see what (if anything) is there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 06:13:08 pm Matt Archer wrote:
Disk space is cheap. US $0.30 / Gigabyte Maximize your swap so that installed memory + swap = 4 GB
But as Carlos said, first see if you can mount /dev/sda6 and see what (if anything) is there.
Yes I know it is cheep, but my system can not use more RAM because it does not have PAE it has 2 GB of RAM in it so with that plus 2 GB swap my system is pretty much maxed out. -- "We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." Karl Popper
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-06-18 at 00:01 -0400, Adam Jimerson wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5009 40229102 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 5663 14593 71738257+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 5663 5924 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 5925 8535 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda7 8536 10958 19462716 83 Linux /dev/sda8 10959 14593 29198106 83 Linux
I know I did not create the sda2 and sda6 partitions on the disk, and seeing as how sda6 is not mounted anywhere I can just put that space to good use somewhere, but I don't know about the extended partition is there a way I can check and see what is is for?
sda2 is an extended partition, ie, it is a primary partition that contains all logical partitions, those numbered 5 and upward. Thus, sda5, sda6, sda7 and sda8 are all inside sda2, which you can check by their track numbers. About sda6, mount it and learn what it contains. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIWNvAtTMYHG2NR9URAi6GAJ9pLGHVgjVijPIeQF8nxq2P6JhWWgCfW/te ieQPngotKGWlqT/eJMZUNVI= =kKRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 05:56:15 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
sda2 is an extended partition, ie, it is a primary partition that contains all logical partitions, those numbered 5 and upward. Thus, sda5, sda6, sda7 and sda8 are all inside sda2, which you can check by their track numbers.
About sda6, mount it and learn what it contains.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
OK so I will be able to do a clean install and set up my partitioning without the extended partion later. As for sda6, it looks like it is a copy of "/" this is what I found in it: . bin dev home lost+found mnt proc sbin success tmp var .. boot etc lib media opt root srv sys usr windows I did have SUSE 10.2 installed on that machine before, but I did a clean install of 10.3, or what I thought was a clean install... is a "non clean clean install" even possable short of upgrading? -- "We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." Karl Popper
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-06-18 at 18:14 -0400, Adam Jimerson wrote:
OK so I will be able to do a clean install and set up my partitioning without the extended partion later.
Notice that not using an extended partition means that you are limited to four partitions.
As for sda6, it looks like it is a copy of "/" this is what I found in it:
. bin dev home lost+found mnt proc sbin success tmp var .. boot etc lib media opt root srv sys usr windows
I did have SUSE 10.2 installed on that machine before, but I did a clean install of 10.3, or what I thought was a clean install... is a "non clean clean install" even possable short of upgrading?
A clean install doesn't necesarily means "destroy previous install". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIWZTdtTMYHG2NR9URAubKAJ9WLqQoCr2Jzrz2Vj27KG5wfAhZJgCgj02U Hc1DBzLvSb9DkB2BvidvKnY= =wT54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 07:06:04 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
A clean install doesn't necesarily means "destroy previous install".
Putting that that ways, I guess it does make sense. -- "We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." Karl Popper
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Adam Jimerson
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Carlos E. R.
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Matt Archer