[opensuse] Partition Query
Hi Just wanted to query something with the partitioning on my disk. I had to reinstall the OS this evening (KDE 10.3) and it looks as though the previous partitions for previous system are still present which is not what i had intended. I don't much about this, so i'm not sure if it's something i need to be concerned about or not, but i do want to make sure i haven't caused a problem. I opened Kdiskfree which shows the following: DEVICE TYPE SIZE MOUNT POINT /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy /dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev Does this look right? During the install i wanted to completely remove the previous installation and repartition the new OS using the whole disk, but i'm not certain that has happened. I'm using a SATA 160GB hard drive on a Dell XPS laptop on 64bit Architecture. I'd be really grateful if someone could explain what has happened and if i need to be concerned at all. I''m sorry if this seems a silly request, i just want to understand what i've done. Thanks in advance, Jamie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Hi
Just wanted to query something with the partitioning on my disk.
I had to reinstall the OS this evening (KDE 10.3) and it looks as though the previous partitions for previous system are still present which is not what i had intended. I don't much about this, so i'm not sure if it's something i need to be concerned about or not, but i do want to make sure i haven't caused a problem.
I opened Kdiskfree which shows the following:
DEVICE TYPE SIZE MOUNT POINT
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
During the install i wanted to completely remove the previous installation and repartition the new OS using the whole disk, but i'm not certain that has happened.
I'm using a SATA 160GB hard drive on a Dell XPS laptop on 64bit Architecture.
I'd be really grateful if someone could explain what has happened and if i need to be concerned at all.
I''m sorry if this seems a silly request, i just want to understand what i've done.
Thanks in advance, Jamie
Jamie, What I have found is the 10.3 install will attempt to create new partitions regardless of existing partitions, but it will number the new partitions as if the old partitions exist. Specifically if you have one disk with 2 existing partitions and one extended partition: sda1 / sda2 /boot sda5 /home When you install 10.3 either again or for the first time with the old install being 10.2 or something really recent, yast will propose: sda3 / sda6 /boot sda7 /home Which is quite annoying. When I get to the partitioning part of the install, I just click on "Partitions" choose "custom partitioning" the _delete_ all existing partitions. You can then choose "propose a new partitioning scheme" and usually yast gets it right (sda1, sda2, sda5, etc.) or you can the edit what yast "proposed" to adjust the partition sizes, etc. Note: any time you change partitions you will LOSE ALL DATA CONTAINED ON THE DISK. Also, when partitioning don't forget to create a swap file. Rule of thumb make the swap file 2 times the size of the ram installed up to about 1 Gig. (i.e. 512M or RAM, then create 1G swap) Any swap over 1-2 Gig is a waste of space. If you ever swapped that much the disk I/0 would bring your system to its knees. Don't be afraid to do your own partitioning on a new install. If you really screw it up and get lost, then just start the install over. The yast installer interface to the partitioner, while clunky, is really quite simple and good. For each partition, just select your filesystem type (ext3, reiser, etc..[swap for the swap file]) then select "format partition" so that it will be formatted, choose the mount point (/, /boot, /home or swap) and then move to your next partition until done. That's it. I usually like ~100M for /boot, (you can easily fit 3 kernels there and 4 will fit). If you have 100G drive, then make / 15G and /home the remaining 85G. You can really easily fit every application you can dream of in a 15G / partition. If you have a 500G drive, then I would make / 20G and then use the remaining 480G for /home. I have just about everything under the sun loaded and it takes a total of 8.1G. (here are my active partitions shown with df -h) Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 15G 8.1G 6.1G 58% / udev 1014M 88K 1014M 1% /dev /dev/sda7 51G 32G 17G 66% /home /dev/sda1 43G 23G 20G 54% /windows/C 2 Notes: 1-you don't create /dev, the system does that automatically; and 2-(dual boot with windows, windows needs to be on the first partition of the primary drive. Linux doesn't care where it gets installed) Have fun, you can't hurt it.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Hi
Just wanted to query something with the partitioning on my disk.
I had to reinstall the OS this evening (KDE 10.3) and it looks as though the previous partitions for previous system are still present which is not what i had intended. I don't much about this, so i'm not sure if it's something i need to be concerned about or not, but i do want to make sure i haven't caused a problem.
I opened Kdiskfree which shows the following:
DEVICE TYPE SIZE MOUNT POINT
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
During the install i wanted to completely remove the previous installation and repartition the new OS using the whole disk, but i'm not certain that has happened.
I'm using a SATA 160GB hard drive on a Dell XPS laptop on 64bit Architecture.
I'd be really grateful if someone could explain what has happened and if i need to be concerned at all.
I''m sorry if this seems a silly request, i just want to understand what i've done.
Thanks in advance, Jamie
Jamie,
What I have found is the 10.3 install will attempt to create new partitions regardless of existing partitions, but it will number the new partitions as if the old partitions exist. Specifically if you have one disk with 2 existing partitions and one extended partition:
sda1 / sda2 /boot sda5 /home
When you install 10.3 either again or for the first time with the old install being 10.2 or something really recent, yast will propose:
sda3 / sda6 /boot sda7 /home
Which is quite annoying. When I get to the partitioning part of the install, I just click on "Partitions" choose "custom partitioning" the _delete_ all existing partitions. You can then choose "propose a new partitioning scheme" and usually yast gets it right (sda1, sda2, sda5, etc.) or you can the edit what yast "proposed" to adjust the partition sizes, etc.
[rest deleted] Most interesting David. I have now installed 10.3 at least 6 times and have not come across this problem you describe above. I never accept what SuSE suggests; I always choose the Expert mode option, and have always had the Partitioner show the correct configuration of my HDs and the partitions (for me to delete/create/edit). Ciao. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Jamie,
What I have found is the 10.3 install will attempt to create new partitions regardless of existing partitions, but it will number the new partitions as if the old partitions exist. Specifically if you have one disk with 2 existing partitions and one extended partition:
sda1 / sda2 /boot sda5 /home
When you install 10.3 either again or for the first time with the old install being 10.2 or something really recent, yast will propose:
sda3 / sda6 /boot sda7 /home
Which is quite annoying. When I get to the partitioning part of the install, I just click on "Partitions" choose "custom partitioning" the _delete_ all existing partitions. You can then choose "propose a new partitioning scheme" and usually yast gets it right (sda1, sda2, sda5, etc.) or you can the edit what yast "proposed" to adjust the partition sizes, etc.
[rest deleted]
Most interesting David.
I have now installed 10.3 at least 6 times and have not come across this problem you describe above.
It does occur as David described... but only if you delete some partitions on a disk, leaving others, and create some new partitions. If you delete all the partitions on the disk, you will not see the behavior. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Note: any time you change partitions you will LOSE ALL DATA CONTAINED ON THE DISK.
Not so drastic: only of the partitions you touch.
Also, when partitioning don't forget to create a swap file. Rule of thumb make the swap file 2 times the size of the ram installed up to about 1 Gig. (i.e. 512M or RAM, then create 1G swap) Any swap over 1-2 Gig is a waste of space. If you ever swapped that much the disk I/0 would bring your system to its knees.
Not exactly. For instance, if you intend to hybernate, your swap should be larger than your ram.
I usually like ~100M for /boot, (you can easily fit 3 kernels there and 4 will fit). If you have 100G drive, then make / 15G and /home the remaining 85G. You can really easily fit every application you can dream of in a 15G / partition. If you have a 500G drive, then I would make / 20G and then use the remaining 480G for /home. I have just about everything under the sun loaded and it takes a total of 8.1G. (here are my active partitions shown with df -h)
I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH/dAGtTMYHG2NR9URApRoAJ0ZL6tRBLBFJ0d1jdZ0j/VlVuUgOACfTJSz EypIvYfG1vCL6KH+xZhBpDA= =K1WT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:52 AM, David C. Rankin
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Hi
Just wanted to query something with the partitioning on my disk.
I had to reinstall the OS this evening (KDE 10.3) and it looks as though the previous partitions for previous system are still present which is not what i had intended. I don't much about this, so i'm not sure if it's something i need to be concerned about or not, but i do want to make sure i haven't caused a problem.
I opened Kdiskfree which shows the following:
DEVICE TYPE SIZE MOUNT POINT
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
During the install i wanted to completely remove the previous installation and repartition the new OS using the whole disk, but i'm not certain that has happened.
I'm using a SATA 160GB hard drive on a Dell XPS laptop on 64bit Architecture.
I'd be really grateful if someone could explain what has happened and if i need to be concerned at all.
I''m sorry if this seems a silly request, i just want to understand what i've done.
Thanks in advance, Jamie
Jamie,
What I have found is the 10.3 install will attempt to create new partitions regardless of existing partitions, but it will number the new partitions as if the old partitions exist. Specifically if you have one disk with 2 existing partitions and one extended partition:
sda1 / sda2 /boot sda5 /home
When you install 10.3 either again or for the first time with the old install being 10.2 or something really recent, yast will propose:
sda3 / sda6 /boot sda7 /home
Which is quite annoying. When I get to the partitioning part of the install, I just click on "Partitions" choose "custom partitioning" the _delete_ all existing partitions. You can then choose "propose a new partitioning scheme" and usually yast gets it right (sda1, sda2, sda5, etc.) or you can the edit what yast "proposed" to adjust the partition sizes, etc.
Note: any time you change partitions you will LOSE ALL DATA CONTAINED ON THE DISK.
Also, when partitioning don't forget to create a swap file. Rule of thumb make the swap file 2 times the size of the ram installed up to about 1 Gig. (i.e. 512M or RAM, then create 1G swap) Any swap over 1-2 Gig is a waste of space. If you ever swapped that much the disk I/0 would bring your system to its knees.
Don't be afraid to do your own partitioning on a new install. If you really screw it up and get lost, then just start the install over. The yast installer interface to the partitioner, while clunky, is really quite simple and good. For each partition, just select your filesystem type (ext3, reiser, etc..[swap for the swap file]) then select "format partition" so that it will be formatted, choose the mount point (/, /boot, /home or swap) and then move to your next partition until done. That's it.
I usually like ~100M for /boot, (you can easily fit 3 kernels there and 4 will fit). If you have 100G drive, then make / 15G and /home the remaining 85G. You can really easily fit every application you can dream of in a 15G / partition. If you have a 500G drive, then I would make / 20G and then use the remaining 480G for /home. I have just about everything under the sun loaded and it takes a total of 8.1G. (here are my active partitions shown with df -h)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 15G 8.1G 6.1G 58% / udev 1014M 88K 1014M 1% /dev /dev/sda7 51G 32G 17G 66% /home /dev/sda1 43G 23G 20G 54% /windows/C
2 Notes: 1-you don't create /dev, the system does that automatically; and 2-(dual boot with windows, windows needs to be on the first partition of the primary drive. Linux doesn't care where it gets installed)
Have fun, you can't hurt it....
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
I'd advise to make a separate partition for /tmp. If things get nasty (uncontrolled shutdown of programs usually does that, beagle seems to have that result) and /tmp will fill up you can still start X. If the uncontrolled fill up of /tmp happens without /tmp being on a separate partition some strange thing can happen: When you start X and login X may crash and freeze. This was the original reason I enlisted to this list. I could not find the trouble, I just saw my /tmp was full and erased it (not thinking that would be the solution). So a useful layout: 15 G / 1 G swap 2 G /tmp rest /home With multiple disks there could be an easy solution splitting parts of /home to another disk /home/<user>/music on 1 disk /home/<user>/movies on another Neil
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I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
'd advise to make a separate partition for /tmp. If things get nasty (uncontrolled shutdown of programs usually does that, beagle seems to have that result) and /tmp will fill up you can still start X. If the uncontrolled fill up of /tmp happens without /tmp being on a separate partition some strange thing can happen: When you start X and login X may crash and freeze. This was the original reason I enlisted to this list. I could not find the trouble, I just saw my /tmp was full and erased it (not thinking that would be the solution). So a useful layout: 15 G / 1 G swap 2 G /tmp rest /home
Neil
Excellent additions Carlos, Neil, all... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
'd advise to make a separate partition for /tmp. If things get nasty (uncontrolled shutdown of programs usually does that, beagle seems to have that result) and /tmp will fill up you can still start X. If the uncontrolled fill up of /tmp happens without /tmp being on a separate partition some strange thing can happen: When you start X and login X may crash and freeze. This was the original reason I enlisted to this list. I could not find the trouble, I just saw my /tmp was full and erased it (not thinking that would be the solution). So a useful layout: 15 G / 1 G swap 2 G /tmp rest /home
Neil
Excellent additions Carlos, Neil, all...
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yes, thank you to all of you. I wasn't aware of the benefits of creating a seperate /tmp partition and had already done the new installation before i'd read your mail. Do you think it would be a good plan for me to start over so i can include that? Jamie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Yes, thank you to all of you. I wasn't aware of the benefits of creating a seperate /tmp partition and had already done the new installation before i'd read your mail. Do you think it would be a good plan for me to start over so i can include that?
Jamie
Nope, It may be a good idea, but other than a few Mandrake installs, I've run without a separate /tmp partition since 2000 and never had a problem. I just make sure I tell cron to clean all files from /tmp that are over 14 days old. Just use: Yast->System->/etc/sysconfig editor/System/Cron/MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP and set it to 14; or just edit /etc/sysconfig/cron with vi (or your favorite editor) and set: MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP="14" That will keep /tmp under control. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jamie Griffin wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
'd advise to make a separate partition for /tmp. If things get nasty (uncontrolled shutdown of programs usually does that, beagle seems to have that result) and /tmp will fill up you can still start X. If the uncontrolled fill up of /tmp happens without /tmp being on a separate partition some strange thing can happen: When you start X and login X may crash and freeze. This was the original reason I enlisted to this list. I could not find the trouble, I just saw my /tmp was full and erased it (not thinking that would be the solution). So a useful layout: 15 G / 1 G swap 2 G /tmp rest /home
Neil
Excellent additions Carlos, Neil, all...
Yes, thank you to all of you. I wasn't aware of the benefits of creating a seperate /tmp partition and had already done the new installation before i'd read your mail. Do you think it would be a good plan for me to start over so i can include that?
See if you can shrink a partition, and put /tmp in the space that you were able to free up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Jamie Griffin wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
'd advise to make a separate partition for /tmp. If things get nasty (uncontrolled shutdown of programs usually does that, beagle seems to have that result) and /tmp will fill up you can still start X. If the uncontrolled fill up of /tmp happens without /tmp being on a separate partition some strange thing can happen: When you start X and login X may crash and freeze. This was the original reason I enlisted to this list. I could not find the trouble, I just saw my /tmp was full and erased it (not thinking that would be the solution). So a useful layout: 15 G / 1 G swap 2 G /tmp rest /home
Neil
Excellent additions Carlos, Neil, all...
Yes, thank you to all of you. I wasn't aware of the benefits of creating a seperate /tmp partition and had already done the new installation before i'd read your mail. Do you think it would be a good plan for me to start over so i can include that?
See if you can shrink a partition, and put /tmp in the space that you were able to free up.
Why? As long is /tmp is kept clean there is no need. If it does get filled with a lot of crap, boot to run level 2 and clean it manually. Why people still think that numerous separate partitions are still needed with todays large hard drives is beyond me. And no I am not trying to start a war of who is right and who is wrong. The only partition setup that is correct is the one that works for you which doesn't make it correct for everyone or anyone else. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 07:56 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
'd advise to make a separate partition for /tmp. If things get nasty (uncontrolled shutdown of programs usually does that, beagle seems to have that result) and /tmp will fill up you can still start X. If the uncontrolled fill up of /tmp happens without /tmp being on a separate partition some strange thing can happen: When you start X and login X may crash and freeze. This was the original reason I enlisted to this list. I could not find the trouble, I just saw my /tmp was full and erased it (not thinking that would be the solution). So a useful layout: 15 G / 1 G swap 2 G /tmp rest /home
Neil
Excellent additions Carlos, Neil, all...
Another thing: Withing /etc/sysconfig/cron you can purging old files in temp directories like /tmp and /var/tmp. You can also enable the feature that the system clears them enterily after a reboot. Both options are "off" by default and have to be turned on manually (vi or yast) hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jamie Griffin a écrit :
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
what you give don't give any usable info (the ... are the important part!) try "fdisk -l" (l is Lima) an give us the result on a working install, "df" givez also important info all this in Konsole, of course, as root jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi everyone, i'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you all. And thank you for the helpful feed back. I've tried a new install as David suggested and tried to partition the disk myself, using the yast partitioner of course. It seems to have worked ok, this is the output from fdisk -l now: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00080e48 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2874 19457 133210980 83 Linux In addition, when booting up, the grub screen does only show "opensuse 10.3 ..." and floppy, where as on the previous installtion it showed me a second opensuse 10.3 on sda2 (hope that makes sense). However, when i look at KDiskfree again, it still shows --as before-- /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy and then it lists /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 ...etc, which reflects the output from fdisk -l. It's clearly an error on my part, so will try it again if you guys think that's the best thing to do? thanks again. Jamie On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, jdd sur free wrote:
Jamie Griffin a écrit :
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
what you give don't give any usable info (the ... are the important part!)
try "fdisk -l" (l is Lima) an give us the result
on a working install, "df" givez also important info
all this in Konsole, of course, as root
jdd
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Jamie Griffin a écrit :
Hi everyone, i'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you all.
no problem
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2874 19457 133210980 83 Linux
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 ext3 N/A /home
/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
...etc, which reflects the output from fdisk -l. It's clearly an error on my part, so will try it again if you guys think that's the best thing to do?
what error? the three displays shows the same thing. sda2 and part2 are the same, sda3 and part3 also all this seems nice and should work jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, jdd sur free wrote:
Jamie Griffin a écrit :
Hi everyone, i'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you all.
no problem
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2874 19457 133210980 83 Linux
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 ext3 N/A /home
/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
...etc, which reflects the output from fdisk -l. It's clearly an error on my part, so will try it again if you guys think that's the best thing to do?
what error? the three displays shows the same thing. sda2 and part2 are the same, sda3 and part3 also
all this seems nice and should work
jdd
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BTW - sorry for the top posting earlier. I know it annoys some people, i'd already typed most of the message and didn't want to start again. So that all looks ok then? That's good to know. I was just wasn't too sure what KDiskfree was showing me i guess. I'd expected it to show the partitions in the same view as df -h or fdisk. Jamie
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-04-10 at 14:02 +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote: ...
BTW - sorry for the top posting earlier. I know it annoys some people, i'd already typed most of the message and didn't want to start again.
Hint: the point of bottom-posting is not simply to write at the bottom, but to remove all the text on top that is not needed anymore - like I'm doing, leaving just your two lines above and deleting a dozen or two ;-)
So that all looks ok then? That's good to know. I was just wasn't too sure what KDiskfree was showing me i guess. I'd expected it to show the partitions in the same view as df -h or fdisk.
It looks strange, but that's KDiskfree doings, showing the double entry. So it is fine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH/iXctTMYHG2NR9URAsMNAJ0WKXLqPmSEqASQXurtsl38Hpoq+gCePDCV d08aOGrHUJmHMV3aiOgvC9Y= =M0nK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Hi everyone, i'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you all. And thank you for the helpful feed back.
I've tried a new install as David suggested and tried to partition the disk myself, using the yast partitioner of course. It seems to have worked ok, this is the output from fdisk -l now:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00080e48
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2874 19457 133210980 83 Linux
In addition, when booting up, the grub screen does only show "opensuse 10.3 ..." and floppy, where as on the previous installtion it showed me a second opensuse 10.3 on sda2 (hope that makes sense).
However, when i look at KDiskfree again, it still shows --as before--
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 ext3 N/A /home
/dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
and then it lists
/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
...etc, which reflects the output from fdisk -l. It's clearly an error on my part, so will try it again if you guys think that's the best thing to do?
thanks again. Jamie
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, jdd sur free wrote:
Jamie Griffin a écrit :
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
Jamie, Looks great. Please post the output of 'cat /etc/fstab' so we can confirm. I don't know why kDiskFree shows the ? or N/A, but rest assured it shows the same on mine. See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshot/kDiskFee.jpg (ignore the external machine mounts of //nemesis/* and //nirvana/*) Good job! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Hi everyone, i'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you all. And thank you for the helpful feed back.
I've tried a new install as David suggested and tried to partition the disk myself, using the yast partitioner of course. It seems to have worked ok, this is the output from fdisk -l now:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00080e48
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2874 19457 133210980 83 Linux
In addition, when booting up, the grub screen does only show "opensuse 10.3 ..." and floppy, where as on the previous installtion it showed me a second opensuse 10.3 on sda2 (hope that makes sense).
However, when i look at KDiskfree again, it still shows --as before--
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 ext3 N/A /home
/dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
and then it lists
/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
...etc, which reflects the output from fdisk -l. It's clearly an error on my part, so will try it again if you guys think that's the best thing to do?
thanks again. Jamie
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, jdd sur free wrote:
Jamie Griffin a écrit :
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
Jamie,
Looks great. Please post the output of 'cat /etc/fstab' so we can confirm. I don't know why kDiskFree shows the ? or N/A, but rest assured it shows the same on mine.
See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshot/kDiskFee.jpg
(ignore the external machine mounts of //nemesis/* and //nirvana/*)
Good job!
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thanks David. Here it is: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 -- Jamie
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Thanks David. Here it is:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
You are 100% A-OK. See my other post about the note on cleaning /tmp with MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP="14". -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Thanks David. Here it is:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVT-_WD-WXE108H89310-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
You are 100% A-OK. See my other post about the note on cleaning /tmp with MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP="14".
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
That's good news. And, thanks for the cleaning '/tmp' tip; i'm just about to do that now. I appreciate you all taking the time to help out. I'm sure it was a simple query for you guys, but it's much more clear to me now. Thanks again. Jamie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jamie Griffin a écrit :
That's good news. And, thanks for the cleaning '/tmp' tip; i'm just about to do that now.
yes it's an important thing to do. forgetting doing so I recently had a 7Gb /tmp folder :-() jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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