Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 January 2006 11:29, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >     I'm guessing that this will be a logical partition, since there's
> > already a boot sector, one WinXP NTFS sector, Linux swap, and Linux
> > partition.
>
> SuSE will have no problem. But, if you insert a partition, you will change
> the device numbering.

What Jerry is saying is that linux partitions always are numbered, just as:

/dev/hda2,  /dev/hda3   etc.

If you insert a partition between 2 and 4 above, then you have renumbered your 
partitions so that 2 = old2,  3 = new partition,  4 - old3

This is a problem that is easily fixed by booting the 'rescue system' and 
editing   /etc/fstab   to indicate the new numbering...   or.....    by 
changing the fstab before you go to change partitions so on reboot, you have 
the new numbering already in place.

However,  if you make the new partition a logical partition, their numbering 
starts at  5...    and since you didn't seem to already have any logical 
partitions,   the new partition will be  /dev/hda5   and there will be no 
renumbering.

However, you will need to make a 'mount point'  for the new partition and add 
an entry in /etc/fstab  if you want  linux to automatically mount the new 
partition.