Debian partitions

[Bob Cober]

Armand is correct.

You can only have up to four primary partitions on an intel platform.  You
can create one of these as an extended partition which will hold multiple
logical partitions.  On the older LILO I also believe /boot needed to be
before the 8GB boundary.

Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: Armand <milkbone@cableone.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: 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
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