Actually, if i'm not mistaken, hda4 should be your extended partition and
encompass hda5 and hda6 as logical partitions. Just be sure to make the
partitions sized appropriately for future upgrades (measure twice and cut
once).
hda1 Windows 2000
hda2 RedHat 9
hda3 Knoppix
hda4 Extended
hda5 /home
hda6 Swap (approximately 1.5 times the amount of ram you will have in 6
months)
As this goes, I personally don't see any issues. If left up to the
installation, the distro's typically create one primary partition and all
other logical drives in the extended partition. I see it better to take
control and frame the drive as needed.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: <cpace@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Cc: <flalug@chaossolutions.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 4:49 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Directory structure question
Ok, here goes...
Ever since I have been playing with Linux I have always created 2 partitions
when setting up a system, one for swap and the other root (/). On my laptop
I currently have 4 partitions as follows:
hda1 NTFS Windows 2000 (Barely used but there in case needed)
hda2 Swap Shared between 2 linux distros
hda3 Reiser FS Mandrake
hda4 Reiser FS Knoppix
I have both Mandrake and Knoppix so I can play back and forth. I have
decided to put RH 9 (since I will be using it a lot more in the near future)
and keep Knoppix. I believe that what I want to do is not only possible but
also recommended. I want to make a common /home directory that both
distro's can use. I believe what will need to be done is:
hda1 NTFS Windows 2000 (Barely used but there in case needed)
hda2 Swap Shared between 2 linux distros
hda3 Reiser FS Mandrake
hda4 Reiser FS Knoppix
hda5 Reiser FS /home shared by both distro's
The only problem that I can forsee is that /hda5 will actually have to be a
logical partition since you can only have 4 primary partitions. Has anyone
done this? I know what the pro's are but are there any con's I should be
concerned with.
Thanks for any assistance :)
Pace
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