Re: adding a primary partition
From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 07/30/05
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To: duncan@lithgow-schmidt.dk, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:34:12 +0200
Am Sa, den 30.07.2005 schrieb Duncan Lithgow um 12:07:
> I want to ads another primary partition, will this fu*k up my partition
> numbering?
>
> I currently have: (output from parted print)
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 2 0.031 59914.292 primary fat32 lba
> 1 59914.292 60016.267 primary ext3 boot
> 3 60016.267 107418.999 extended lba
> 5 60016.298 61012.485 logical linux-swap
> 6 61012.516 71515.920 logical ext3
> 7 71515.951 72614.113 logical ext3
> 8 72614.145 83117.548 logical ext3 boot
> 9 83117.580 84215.742 logical ext3
> 10 84215.773 94719.177 logical ext3
> 11 94719.208 95817.370 logical ext3
> 12 95817.401 106320.805 logical ext3
> 13 106320.836 107418.999 logical ext3
>
> If I add one using parted wil it be /dev/hdb4 and sit after all the
> others? Or should I move everything along a bit and get it in nearer the
> front - make any difference?
>
> (don't tell anyone but I'm doing this to try out BSD ;-)
>
> Thanks - Duncan
In any case *BSD requires a primary partition (while it is called
"slice"). I suspect you have free space on your hard drive at the end,
beyond "107418.999". The additional primary partition will then be at
the end and not arranged in between. Partition tools may claim the
partition table to be out of order (mixed ordering). Whether that could
be a problem? Don't know for sure. As long as you don't delete existing
partitions (by accident) Fedora should stay as it is. Using partition
labels it should even be tolerant if the order of partitions would
change. I personally would give a spare disk the preference when playing
with *BSD partitions the first time.
In any case be _very_ sensible and careful to not loose your data! I say
that as a warning as partitioning from *BSD may be confusing when doing
this the first time.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-2.html
That could be helpful.
In any way, have fun :)
Alexander
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