[SOLVED] installing linux on a logical partition

bluegospel · 04-22-2010, 08:18 PM

I'm thinking of using 3 logical partitions for my slackware linux, linux swap, and my /home directory. Are there any reasons why I couldn't or wouldn't want to do this?

damgar · 04-22-2010, 08:22 PM

No. This is what I do, especially when I'm multi-booting.

onebuck · 04-23-2010, 07:44 AM

Hi,

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Originally Posted by bluegospel

I'm thinking of using 3 logical partitions for my slackware linux, linux swap, and my /home directory. Are there any reasons why I couldn't or wouldn't want to do this?

Desktop or Server?

bluegospel · 04-23-2010, 03:49 PM

I'll be running Apache & also using it as a print server if that's possible, as well as in other capacities as a server. My Windows is the desktop version.

10110111 · 04-23-2010, 04:13 PM

There are very few reasons for not using logical partitions, one of most obvious is if losing some KiB of disk space is critical for you. Another one is if you like the partitions be defined directly in the MBR

onebuck · 04-23-2010, 05:30 PM

Hi,

A sample of one of my bench laptop systems;

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fdisk -l output;

/dev/sda1 * 1 5125 41164800 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5126 5386 2096482+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 5387 5781 3172837+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 5782 60801 441948150 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 5782 7086 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7087 8391 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 8392 9696 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 9697 14918 41945683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 14919 17529 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 17530 17790 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 17791 19095 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 19096 26928 62918541 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 26929 34761 62918541 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 34762 42594 62918541 83 Linux
/dev/sda15 42595 60801 146247696 83 Linux

Quote:

/etc/fstab
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda5 /spare1 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 /spare2 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /spare3 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda9 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda10 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda11 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda12 /linux_arc1 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda13 /linux_arc2 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda14 /linux_arc3 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda15 /linux_arc4 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_vista ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0