On 2007/09/09 01:30 (GMT-0400) Bob S apparently typed:
On Saturday 08 September 2007 01:15, Felix Miata wrote:
Not exactly dumb. Without "sacrificing" a primary for use as an extended, you're limited to 4 partitions total. There are only two ways to be out of available unpartitioned space to add a logical if an extended already exists:
1-100% of freespace is already allocated to partitions 2-all existing freespace is located in between two primary partitions neither of which is an extended partition
Neither of those are the problem. The fourth primary (sda4) is the extended and all of the free space is after that.
However, Yast partitioner will not allow me to create or edit it because of the extended partition size restrictions.
I almost never use anything other than DFSee to add or remove partitions, but even so, I don't believe "because of..." is true.
It will not let me resize it neither because supposedly it is the wrong file system type. So, now all of the free space is lost behind it.
That's not how it works with sensible partitioning tools. Rather, it will probably resize the extended automatically if you select the freespace following the logical(s), click on "Add", and go through the rest of the steps to create a new logical.
Does this mean I have to delete the extended partition and make it extend to the end of the disk and lose all of my present logical partitions?
With partitioning tools that have logical user interfaces, one never explicitly deletes an extended partition. One only adds or deletes a logical partition, and the tool automatically adjusts the extended to match. The extended itself doesn't have a "size". Its size is merely the sum of all logicals it contains. So, you only remove it by removing all logicals.
Do you use the same /swap for all of the os's? (e.g. like my /swap for 10.0 on the IDE drive?)
Linux installers generally will use every swap partition they can find. If you have multiple swap partitions, you'll have to manually change each new fstab to use whichever swap partitions you want used for that Linux.
Do you mean that if there are two separate swap partitions they can be combined?
I don't know about combining. That might be what the kernel does. The installer merely puts all swap partitions it finds in fstab.
I doubt anyone does. There's no reason to. I usually have a maintenance and/or boot partition on the first, a boot manager on the second, a small primary type 0x06 for DOS and/or windoz, and everything else as logicals, typically more than 20 total per disk.
OK, but that means you have used up two very small primary partitions and one larger one for DOS/Windows, right?
Wrong. I don't "install" doz on C:. I merely give it a tiny C: to host its boot files, and "install" it usually to D:.
On partitioning generally: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/partitioningindex.html
Spent over an hour reading it. Very informative. but a few questions: The LVM you talk about there; that is a OS2 thing right? Different from LVM in Linux.
I updated it today to remove the confusion between OS/2 LVM and Linux LVM, plus other updates.
Next question; you seem to indicate that it is necessary to have a boot manager on the first partition of the first drive to boot more than two os's. I don't really recall but I think there was some kind of boot manager as seen by a really old Partition Magic for Win 98 while using LILO. (Win98 still there on hda taking up space to just play a silly game once-in-awhile) If it is not, will I need to install one to run 10.3 once it is installed?
Grub is a boot manager. LILO is a boot manager. WinNT/XP's boot loader is also a crude boot manager. A boot manager doesn't necessarily need its own partition. Some do, some don't, some can go either way. If using only Linux(s) and doz, Grub should be all you need. If you're going to have multiple Linux installations on the same system, I suggest you make a /boot partition for the first one, and that's where grub can live. See also: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/install-doz-after.html -- "It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape." Chief Justice Joseph Story Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org