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.
Is there a command to see how the LV partitioning was done by the installer? If so what is it? I would think the installer did put a /var/home/etc there.
THX
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-----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
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