On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: > > Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large > > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do > the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more > partitions than necessary: > > Device Filesystem Size Mountpoint Contains > ----------------------------------------------------- > /dev/sda1 ext2 5mb /kernels kernels only > /dev/sda2 ext2 8gb / Everything > /dev/sda3 swap 100mb none Swap space
Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb too. Partition Table for /dev/hdb ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- --------- 1 0x00 0 1 1 0x05 127 63 397 8064 3201408 2 0x80 0 1 398 0xA5 127 63 778 3209472 3072384 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 5 0x00 1 2 1 0x83 127 63 204 63 1644992 6 0x00 1 1 205 0x83 127 63 382 63 1435329 7 0x00 1 1 383 0x82 127 63 397 63 120897 I can boot from /dev/hdb2 (FreeBSD) too, and it's the second half of a 3.2gb drive. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]