Hello SuSE people, This is especially for you guys/gals that run 3or 4 os's on a big hard drive. How do you handle the primary and extended partitions?
A while back I purchased a 250 GB Sata drive, intending to install different os's and or versions of SuSE. I installed 10.2 on my shiny new drive but I stupidly partitioned 3 primaries, /, /swap, and /home, and used the fourth primary for the extended partition. Dumb move - Out of partitions with about 150GB of free space. (I run 10.0 on another small IDE drive) Now, I guess I could move my /home and /swap into the extended partition to free up two primary partitions. Hopefully that would give me access to the rest of the unused space on the drive. I always liked having my /home on it's own partition to guard it from mishap. Now, here are some of my questions: Is the /home as safe residing in the extended partition? I could never delete or change the extended partition because they would wipe out /home - right? Is it a good idea to have /swap on the extended partition? Do you use the same /swap for all of the os's? (e.g. like my /swap for 10.0 on the IDE drive?) How do you manage to run 3 or 4 os variants on just 4 primary partitions? Love to hear your individual strategies. Anxiously awaiting the final 10.3 so I can try Compiz-Fusion, Beryl whatever and be able to fall back to 10.2 when I screw it up. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
