Debian partitions

Victor Odhner <vodhner@home.com> writes:

> Setting up a Debian system, I have /dev/hda with the following
> partitions:
>  1 /      123.38 MB
>  2 /usr  1126.87 MB
>  3 /home 2401.79 MB
>  4 ?
>  5 /swap   65.81 MB
>  6 /tmp   148.06 MB
>  7 /var   501.75 MB
>  8 /work 2130.35 MB

>
> Partitioning seems to have skipped assigning /dev/hda4.
>
> Q1: Is this significant?
>
> I've seen references to a partition called /boot.
> My understanding is that the whole system can
> be a single partition if I wish, so I presume
> /boot can be a mount-point within the root partition.
>
> Q2: Do I need to do anything about /boot, or should
> it just appear?
>
> Vic

The fourth partition has become your Extended Partition which contains
5, 6, 7 and 8. It is my understanding that the Intel platform can
only see out to 4 partitions so if you need more partitions then they must be
created within an extended partition.

And yes the /boot directory will be added automatically within the / directory along
with /bin /etc /lib /opt /root /sbin and some others.

But I'm pretty sure you won't be able to fit all of those into the
123 MB's you have left allocated for /

Armand