On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:43 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Friday 28 July 2006 12:33, Per Jessen wrote:
I think we'll need to understand why you've created all of these partitions? A typical setup might look like this:
hda1 - size 64M, for /boot hda2 - swapspace - e.g. 1.5Gb as you've got hda3 - size 20Gb for / (root) hda4 - the rest for /home
You can certainly create extended partitions for e.g. /var and other things, but your setup seems to be a little off the beaten track.
Maybe you just accepted the partitioners default suggestion when your disk was already partitioned? Personally I would do a reinstall instead of trying to fix it.
Very correct, although I would add that using an extended partition for one or more of the above would allow for expansion.
As proposed he would be out of partitions and would have to devote the entire 160GB among /home and / which is waay more than needed.
I'm inclined to agree about the reinstall, I guessed that when the installer made the suggestion of just formatting hda6 & hda8 it was using the whole of the partition table that I'd been using on the previous install, which was Mandriva 2007. I see now that Suse handles the disk partitions in a totally different way to Mandrake, where all the partitions are sequential, not as a sub-partition of one big one. Yes Basil I know I haven't lost the size of the HD, but as good as, as there is 60 GB that is now unusable. If the Suse installer used a graphical illustration of the partition table as with Mandriva/Mandrake, I would have spotted this. However, I just assumed that it was a clever installer and was using the partition table that already existed.. Foolish assumption that German and French software would be compatible :) So time to reinstall, and find the custom section when it comes to partitioning.. Richard
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