On Monday 01 April 2002 12:55 pm, you wrote:
On Monday 01 April 2002 12:57 am, Bob Stia wrote:
This is what PM shows as partitions. hdb1= /, hdb2 = /usr, hdb3 = swap, All primary partitions. That is what I set up originally using about half the drive. The space I set up, hdb4, is an extended primary partition with logical partitions inside for the new OS. Now, however, the Suse boot message shows the following:
<6> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb3 hdb4
Why is hdb2 the extended partition instead of hdb4? Is that something Suse did when it installed? My fstab also reflects the hdb1, hdb3, and hdb4 configuration. I guess that I never noticed it until I repartioned. Should I go back into PM and change the configuration? I hate to do that.......BTW should I set up a separate swap space for the new OS, or will it find the original swap space?
I believe that the Linux convention is:
hda entire drive hda1 - hda4 primary partitions, any one of which may be extended hda5 - hda12 logical partitions
Does that help?
Paul, Well not really. I do understand the Linux convention. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Basically I am asking, Why aren't the partitions shown as the way they were created. I created hdb1, 2, and 3 as primaries, hdb4 as an extended with hdb5, 6,and 7 as logicals within hdb4. Linux shows the partitions: hdb1as primary, hdb2 as extended with hdb5,6,and 7 as logicals within hdb2, then followed by hdb3, and 4. As above from the original post. I expect my /usr to be on hdb2 and swap to be on hdb3 and they aren't. Linux has changed my extended partition from hdb4 to hdb2. Thus moving the file systems up to higher partition numbers. Why ??? Does that make more sense? Bob S.