my partitioning method

[Teddy Mills]

I am not sure about todays bios's but i am still wary of the 1024 
cylinder and not being able to boot an OS when it is installed above the 
1024th cylinder.
This is why I never create a c:\ partiton larger than 4GB.  I put all my 
programs and OS on a 4GB c:\ (/dev/hda1)
Then I install my Linux in a 3750MB (/dev/hda2) and swap partition 
/dev/hda3.  (let GRUB do the boot managing)
  (I used to do this for FC2 and FC3, but now I use RHEL3, same stuff)
Then I make either a NTFS or VFAT partition on /dev/hda4 (the choice 
depends on how i feel that day and wheather i want to compile a kernel 
for NTFS support, whereas VFAT support is builtin)
with the remaing space. This data partition /dev/hda4 is often 50GB or more.

thus

/dev/hda1 Windows NTFS or VFAT
/dev/hda2 root of my linux
/dev/hda3 swap
/dev/hda4 partition for all my data format as ext3, vfat, or ntfs, as 
you see fit


The catch is that many people install their OS's onto partitions larger 
than 4GB,  and then they run into all kinds of problems. with os's not 
booting, partition map problems etc.etc.
This if course my standard setup for a dualbooting system. ie good for 
laptops etc.
For standalone linux servers, the setup of course is more-linux-friendly.




Simon Tonekham wrote:

> hello folks,
>
> This is Simon (from another e-mail address and using Thunderbird since 
> I unsubscribed from my hotmail account because of growing, annoying 
> concerns) , I was attempting to install Fedora on my 2nd hard drive. 
> The problem is I experience problems on doing the automatic 
> partitioning with Fedora. I'm trying to do the automatic partitioning 
> on my Maxtor 30GB Hard drive. I've already created a 15GB VFAT 
> partition which enables me to share files between Windows and in this 
> case, Linux. I also have another 15GB of unallocated space. When I 
> tried to go into the "keep all partitions and use the existing free 
> space" option on my 2nd hard drive or "hdb". I've been presented with 
> an error indicating that I could not allocate the reuqest partitions. 
> This goes as follows:
>
> "Unsatisfied Partition request New part request - mountpoint: none 
> uniqueID: 27 type: physical volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: none 
> device: none drive:['hdb'] primary: none size:0 grow: 1 maxsize: none 
> start: none end: none migrate: none origfstype: none"
>
> I also got this error message as well:
>
> "The following errors occured with your partitioning. You have not 
> defined a root (/) partition wh ich is required for installation of 
> Fedora Core to continue. This can happen if there is not enough space 
> on your hard drive(s) for the installation. You can choose a different 
> automatic partiton option or click "back" to select manual partitioning."
>
> In my opinion, the manual partitioning is a very painful, tedious and 
> meticular (sorry if i misspelled the word) process on establishing 
> Fedora. I've checked the 2nd hard drive for errors and bad sectors, 
> but there are none on my hard drive. I also defragged my hard drive as 
> well. Any suggestions, will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Simon
>
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