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.