On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Jatin K wrote:
Dear *,
I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE
hard-disk )
I'm trying to create following partition layout
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----------- device size mount-point
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----------- hda1 100mb /boot
hda2 500mb swap
hda3 5000mb /
hda4 4500mb Extended partition
hda5 500mb /var
hda6 1000mb /var/www
hda7 2000mb /home
hda8 1000mb /usr
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I've done this on disk druid
licked on new ---> mount point */boot *filesystem type ext3 100MB (
fixed sized is selected ) and it becomes hda1
again licked on new ----> filesystem type Swap 500MB ( fixed sized is
selected ) and it becomes hda2 ...
now creating / ( root ) partition
again clicked on new ---> mount point */* filesystem type ext3 5000mb (
fixed sized is selected ) ... now something happens as soon as I press ok
the swap partition is sifted to hda3 (previously it was on hda2 ) and /
partition goes to hda2
if I go ahead with this and create other partition / goes to hda5
why like this ????
how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in exercise ??
Simple, don't use disk destroyer, its busted. I had a heck of a time when I
installed F10, and f10 was slow as a drugged 3 legged dog. Stable for the
most part but slow. The I started getting problem reports from smartd about
that disk. So I went and got another disk, and used gparted to prepare it as
I wanted it to be, with a few more partitions etc with the sizing based on
previous experience. I labeled them all, put ext3 journals on them, and
rsync'ed them from the failing disk, and did a grub install on the new disk
and fixed /etc/fstab to use label mounts as the last thing I did before a
shutdown to remove the failing disk and move the new one to the sata0 jack.
I had to do a boot from the install dvd in rescue mode and do the grub
install again for some reason. But when I had rebooted from the dvd to the
new disk, the first thing I noticed was a very obviously noticeable speedup
of the system even from the boot verbosity, and now, nearly a year later,
that speedup remains.
But its blasphemous to pan disk destroyer in these here parts, so I keep
quiet about it most of the time.
--
Cheers, Gene
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