i have 2 harddrives. a 6gb and an 11gb. IDE ATA. i want to install opensuse 11.2 on them, using EXT4, in a different way this time. i want the “/” partition to cover all of the 6gb, with the drive set to master. For the slave, I want the “/home” partition on the 11gb, covering only 10gb on the beginning of the drive, and i want the swap space partition on the end of the drive using 1gb. Is this a smart way to install it? Will i have to continuously mount the drive with home and swap on it? What is the best configuration for using these two drives?
Hi
Personally I still prefer a small /boot using ext3, but your plan would
work, although you would need to be frugal with what you install and
probably clean the tmp directories on a regular basis.
it worked great. will do fine until i get a bigger hdd. are the conversion cables accurate and durable? i might get a 1tb sata hdd, but i need an ata to sata conversion cable
Hi
Sounds like you have an older system. Does it have USB 2.0? Are you
really going to fill up 1TB? What about a backup plan for your data,
maybe consider a couple of smaller drives?
> thank you for the reply. i did have a 40gb, but it quit working. BTW,
> what is the /boot partition used for? i have never created one before…
A /boot partition was used when boot loaders such as lilo were unable to
read past cylinder 1024. By having a separate boot-partition you could
enable your system to boot from much larger disks.
> Xezus wrote:
>
> > thank you for the reply. i did have a 40gb, but it quit working.
> > BTW, what is the /boot partition used for? i have never created one
> > before.
>
> A /boot partition was used when boot loaders such as lilo were unable
> to read past cylinder 1024. By having a separate boot-partition you
> could enable your system to boot from much larger disks.
It was a BIOS limitation. It still has it uses nowdays; for example, if
the root partition is “reiserfs”, and you want to hibernate to disk,
then you need a /boot partition since oS 11.0 at least. It is also
recomended if root is “XFS”, and perhaps if you use some types of raid
or lvm.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
> On 2010-07-03 08:37 GMT Per Jessen wrote:
>
>> Xezus wrote:
>>
>> > thank you for the reply. i did have a 40gb, but it quit working.
>> > BTW, what is the /boot partition used for? i have never created one
>> > before.
>>
>> A /boot partition was used when boot loaders such as lilo were unable
>> to read past cylinder 1024. By having a separate boot-partition you
>> could enable your system to boot from much larger disks.
>
> It was a BIOS limitation. It still has it uses nowdays; for example,
> if the root partition is “reiserfs”, and you want to hibernate to
> disk, then you need a /boot partition since oS 11.0 at least. It is
> also recomended if root is “XFS”, and perhaps if you use some types of
> raid or lvm.
Well, I’ve long stopped using a separate /boot partition, and I almost
exclusively use software or hardware RAID, LVM and JFS.
> On 2010-07-03 08:37 GMT Per Jessen wrote:
>
>> Xezus wrote:
>>
>> > thank you for the reply. i did have a 40gb, but it quit working.
>> > BTW, what is the /boot partition used for? i have never created one
>> > before.
>>
>> A /boot partition was used when boot loaders such as lilo were unable
>> to read past cylinder 1024. By having a separate boot-partition you
>> could enable your system to boot from much larger disks.
>
> It was a BIOS limitation.
Yes, you’re right, I think it had to do with the interface - but it
still exists today if you don’t use lba32 in lilo.conf. I remember
putting 80Gb drives in old 486 boxes, and simply using the
user-specificed config to say 1024 cylinders.
