[plug] Disk partitions and Swap file

[Robert Andrews]

Okay thanks for that

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Nicholls <jason at mindsocket.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Disk partitions and Swap file


> G'day,
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:11:34PM +0800, Robert Andrews wrote:
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *         1         3     24066   83  Linux
> > /dev/hda2             4      1027   8225280    5  Extended
> > /dev/hda5             4      1018   8152956   83  Linux
> > /dev/hda6          1019      1027     72261   82  Linux swap
>
> > Now my question is do i need to modify the fstab file to include
> > /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda6
>
> There is an entry for hda6 (swap partition), i've repeated it below:
> > /dev/hda6             swap                swap    defaults
>
> As for hda2 it's not a partition that you'd mount. With IDE disks you can
have
> up to 4 primary partitions, if you want more than that you must make one
of
> them type 'extended'. Then you can create a large number of partitions
> *within* the extended partition. In this case both hda5 and hda6 are
inside
> the extended partition.
>
> It's typical to only use 2 of the primary paritions, one for a /boot (or
> a DOS/win partition) and the other as extended.
>
>
> > if so could somebody include an example of what the fstab should look
like
> > given the above information.
>
> It's fine how it is.
>
>
> Later,
>
> Jason Nicholls
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