partitioning

[Rashkae]

Thufir wrote:
> Here's what I have so far in way of a partition scheme:
> 
> thufir at arrakis:~$ fdisk -l
> thufir at arrakis:~$ 
> thufir at arrakis:~$ sudo fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000b4a4f
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        9553    76734441   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            9554        9729     1413720    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            9554        9729     1413688+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x3e3f0126
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        1020     8193118+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdb2            3567        3738     1381590    5  Extended
> /dev/sdb3            1021        2167     9213277+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb4            2168        3566    11237467+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb5            3567        3738     1381558+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> thufir at arrakis:~$ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> With the addendum that sda (hda?) will be made into a single partition.
> 
> 
> sdb1         windows 2000 professional
> sdb3         /
> sdb4         /home
> sda          extra stuff
> 
> 
> does this seem reasonable?
> 

Looks good to me..

Although, if I were going to put the time into repartitioning / copying
hard drives, I would be sorely tempted at those really cheap > 200GB
drives going on sale all over the place.