Re: SUSE, (and other Linux), and Windows

houghi wrote:
VWWall wrote:
I can understand the Linux partitioning better seeing it in the familiar Windows format.

Brrr. Scary. Also I would have NO idea what to expect to see differently
with the Linux partitioning.

This was addressed to others, unlike you, who are more familiar with the Windows way of showing things in Windows Explorer.

It is very clear, I think. 1) The drives are on /dev
2) There are two main different drives, IDE and SCSI, called hd and sd.
3) Dives are given numbers as they are found on the (IDE) interface.
This makes them hda, hdb, hdc and hdd.

I'm sure most of us understand this.. :-)

If you use Windows' "Disk Management", to set up partitions to be formatted and used in Linux, you may have problems. Moral: Do partitioning in the OS in which they'll be used. Actually gparted does a good job for all the OS's I've tried.

Windows' drives, (partitions), are given letters. The above program lets you assign letters to Linux partitions.

4) Each drive can be partitioned. There can be 4 primary and endless
secondary partitions. hda1-hda4 are primary, hda5- are secondary
partitions

This is a BIOS limitation, not Linux nor Windows.

<snip much good stuff every Linux user should learn>

So what I do is set uop my partitions and then forget it as soon as it
is running, because it is unimportant.

It gets important when you want to add Linux to an existing Windows machine. I think we should try and help those people doing this as much as possible. Thus my OP.

Obviously the story does not end there. There is RAID and also LVM and I
did not talk about swap.

I use the same swap partition for three Linux distros. It sure beats Windows' "Page File". :-)

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Virg Wall


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