Re: How do I get the partitions I want with Fedora 3?
From: Neil T. Dantam (ndantam_at_purdue.edu)
Date: 04/01/05
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:18:58 -0500
grouchy wrote:
> I've been trying to replace my previous
> distribution for over a week.
>
> After abandoning *attempts* to run SuSe, I
> managed to get Fedora running.
> On my hard drive (singular), the partitions
> are / and /boot . Apparently the respective
> filesystems are /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> and /dev/hda2 .
> As this conflicts with what little I thought I
> knew about partitions, I'm at a loss. I
> would have expected / to be on filesystem
> /dev/hda? , where ? is not 2.
> I'm not a complete newbie. I know enough to want
> to do things like put /home in its own partition,
> but almost everything is still hard.
> SuSe and Disk Druid come to mind.
> Not being able to make sense of the Disk Druid screen,
> I gave up and let Fedora do what ever it wanted.
> The result was pretty monolithic.
>
> How, if at all, do I fix it?
>
> Can I use fdisk?
>
> Here is some info about my system.
>
> df produces the following:
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 22157852 3850464 17181808 19% /
> /dev/hda2 101105 12183 83701 13% /boot
> none 517204 0 517204 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdd 390 390 0 100%
> /media/cdrecorder
>
> /etc/fstab look like this:
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
> 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
>
> fdisk tells me the following:
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1785 14337981 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 * 1786 1798 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 1799 4865 24635677+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> sfdisk tells me the following:
> Disk /dev/hda: 77545 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
> for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 77545/16/63).
> For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
> 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 0+ 1784 1785- 14337981 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 * 1785 1797 13 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 1798 4864 3067 24635677+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
>
> BTW any idea on how I can keep google from calling me grouchy?
> When I click on "change nickname" it tells me my current nickname
> is "Michael Hennebry".
>
Ok, so you have somehow managed to set up Logical Volume Management with
hda3 with / on one of the logical volumes. See
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ for details on that.
I haven't messed with LVM since it's seemed like more trouble than it'd
be worth.
Since you don't have any unpartitioned space, your only option without
blowing everything away would be to fiddle with some of the logical
groups. Otherwise, you could just reinstall Fedora and repartition
during the install.
Neil
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