On Tuesday, 26 August 2003, at 06:38AM, Meph Istopheles wrote:
My question has to do with partitions as well. I've been running the same /home partition on /dev/hdb1 for quite a few installs of RH.
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 37G 3.4G 31G 10% / /dev/hda1 76M 15M 57M 21% /boot /dev/hdb1 12G 511M 10G 5% /home none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb2 13G 3.0G 9.3G 24% /backup /dev/hdd1 75G 20k 71G 1% /backup2
(/dev/hda1 is so big because I have a few different kernels in there)
I'll be swapping the current /dev/hdd1 to be /dev/hda & the current /dev/hda.
Now, I've been using DiskDruid for partitioning when I set up, & have used fdisk countless times on different drives for partitioning, but never during setup. Will the setup -- assuming, as it should, will find all drives & will set fstab to mount /dev/hdb1 as /home, or will I have to do that manually after first boot as root?
Drive partitioning & mounting is something that Gentoo doesn't believe in doing automagically for you.
It is covered in section 7 of the install docs:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap7
You should treat your partition layout just like /boot /usr & /var mentioned in the docs.
Code listing 7.2 shows how to mount a typical simple partition layout from _within_ the InstallCD chroot. Let's edit this for your system (for the df -h above, not your proposed changes, because it's too early in the morning for me to absorb those right now):
# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/home # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/gentoo/backup # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup2 # mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/gentoo/backup2
Editing fstab is mentioned later in the same document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap15
Code listing 15.1:
/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
"... of course be sure to replace "BOOT", "ROOT" and "SWAP" with the actual block devices you are using (such as hda1, etc.)"
So on your system:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hdb1 /home reiserfs noatime 0 3 /dev/hdb2 /backup reiserfs noatime 0 3 /dev/hdd1 /backup2 reiserfs noatime 0 3
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
HTH,
Stroller.
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