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