Many new Serial ATA controllers have their modules listed as SCSI devices, I am not sure why, I think it has to do with their standards or something. This is normal. Also, what the auto partitioning did was create a 100 Mbyte partition for use as /boot, and the rest of the drive allocated as LVM (Logical Volume Manager). What you do is create virtual file systems inside the LVM (such as /, /usr, /var, /home, whatever). This quickly becoming the norm in the Linux community.
Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-newbie- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of smertz > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:18 AM > To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Partitioning > > I noticed after installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 > (Nahant) last week when I do a fdisk -l that the automatic partitioning > might not have done such a good job of partitioning out my 200 GIG HD. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 14 24321 195254010 8e Linux LVM > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > > > Shouldn't there normally be a few more partitions like /swap /usr etc? > If so is it possible to manipulate these post install? Or better to go > back and re-install and manually do the partitions? Either way I would > appreciate any advice on allocating the HD out. There will be no other > OS on this drive/machine, just RH. > > Also I'm curious why my Hard drives are listed as sda1. These are ATA > drives. Just looked at the drive they are the new SATA drives and may > be recognized incorrectly. > > Thanks > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
