[Gllug] Partioning advice needed

[Dan Kolb]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:11:55PM +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> I've been playing around, installing openSUSE 10.2 on a spare
> machine.I've been doing this in experimental mode, including
> overwriting my original installation.
> 
> The result is that I think I may have more partitions than I actually
> need. What I have is:
> 
> /dev/sda1 2.0GB   Linux swap (mount: swap)
> /dev/sda2 20.0GB  Linux native
> /dev/sda3 210.0GB Extended
> /dev/sda5 20.0GB  Linux native (mount: /)
> /dev/sda6 190.8GB Linux native (mount: /home)
> 
> (There is no sda4)
> 
> My question is: do I need sda2 and sda3? These were all created by the
> Suse installation process, and IIRC the original installation only
> created three partitions - one each for swap, / and /home,

I can't comment about sd2, but you do need sda3. As a relic of the good ol'
days of DOS, you can have up to four primary partitions, everything else would
have to live in an extended partition. DOS' fdisk would only allow you to
create one primary and one extended partition, which would be split into
various logical drives.

In your case, your /dev/sda1 and sda2 are 'primary' partitions, and your sda3
is marked as an extended partition, which is further split up into sda5 and 6.

Hurrah for backwards compatibility and PC hacks, eh?

Dan
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