[plug] Disk partitions and Swap file

[Robert Andrews]

Thanks for that

----- Original Message -----
From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Disk partitions and Swap file


> On Sunday 23 December 2001 23:11, Robert Andrews wrote:
> > The bios reports the drive as having 8447 meg
>
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Total size == 1027 * 16065 * 512 == 8,447,362,560 bytes
>
> Bytes / 10^20 (1048576) == 8056 megabytes (not 8447 million bytes)
>
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *         1         3     24066   83  Linux
>
> Boot partition, approx 24MB
>
> > /dev/hda2             4      1027   8225280    5  Extended
>
> Extended partition, CONTAINS hda5+
>
> > /dev/hda5             4      1018   8152956   83  Linux
>
> Root partition, approx 8GB
>
> > /dev/hda6          1019      1027     72261   82  Linux swap
>
> Swap partition, approx 72MB
>
> > /dev/hda6          swap         swap    defaults 0 0
>
> > Now my question is do i need to modify the fstab file to include
> > /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda6
>
> hda6 is already in it (as swap) and hda2 is not a real partition, it
contains
> hda5 and hda6.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>