Partitioning question

[Eberhard Roloff]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:14:40 +0200
Paul Puschmann <lnx at uzulabs.net> wrote:

> Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> schrieb am Thu, Aug 03, 2006
> at 03:21:36PM +0800:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Please help me to understand what is following partition;
> > 
> > /dev/hda5   228M  4.1M  212M   2% /media/hda5
> > 
> > 
> > At time of installation I created;
> > 
> > /boot  255M  (p)
> > /      8G    (p)
> > /home  10G   (ext)
> > swap   1G    (ext)
> > 
> > 
> > Now they are shown as;
> > 
> > $ sudo fdisk -l
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id
> > System /dev/hda1               1        2342    18812083+
> > 5  Extended /dev/hda5   *           1          31
> > 248944+  83  Linux /dev/hda6              32        1004
> > 7815591   83  Linux /dev/hda7            1005
> > 2220     9767488+  83  Linux /dev/hda8
> > 2221        2342      979933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> > * end *
> > 
> > 
> 
> You didn't create primary partitions but extended with logical
> partitions.
> 
> Boot Knoppix, do an backup of your data, corrct your
> partitions, restore the data, edit /etc/fstab and reinstall
> your bootloader.
> 
Hi, why should that be needed?
If the system works ok and the partition size is also fine with
the user, what would be the benefit to undertake this torture?

As I understood the OP just wanted to know which Linux Partition
names corresponded to the partitions he created during his
installation.

regards
Eberhard


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