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zachula
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 Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:27 am Post subject: Netra T1 - Partitioning Weirdness |
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Following the instructions but have run into a snag setting up the partitions.
The system has a pair of 18g SCSI disks.
I have my whole disk partition on /dev/sda3 okay and sda1 went in okay at 1024M but when I go to set up swap I get some weirdness. If I hit enter I get the situation shown below.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 424 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
Command (m for help): n
Partition number (1-8): 2
First cylinder (424-7506):
Value out of range.
First cylinder (424-7506):
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zachula
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject: Manually defined them |
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So since I got no replies I went ahead and just did it all manual like.
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Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 424 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 425 849 998944 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 850 1274 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda5 1275 5519 9998864 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 5520 7506 4679016 83 Linux native
Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0 7506 17684136 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb3 u 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
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Anyone see anything wrong with that? for some reason my swap was originally labeled as read only but I "fixed" that. My last question has to do with the whole disk partitions....should they be read only or does that even matter? |
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Toady
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: Re: Manually defined them |
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| zachula wrote: | So since I got no replies I went ahead and just did it all manual like.
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Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 424 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 425 849 998944 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 850 1274 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda5 1275 5519 9998864 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 5520 7506 4679016 83 Linux native
Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0 7506 17684136 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb3 u 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
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Anyone see anything wrong with that? for some reason my swap was originally labeled as read only but I "fixed" that. My last question has to do with the whole disk partitions....should they be read only or does that even matter? |
OK I am guessing you have somthing like:
/dev/sda1 - /
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - whole disk
/dev/sda4 - /var
/dev/sda5 - /usr
/dev/sda6 - /???
/dev/sdb1 - /???
You could also use LVM to run the two large partitions into one or whatever you want to do with it 
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zachula
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject: Re: Manually defined them |
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| Toady wrote: | | zachula wrote: | So since I got no replies I went ahead and just did it all manual like.
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Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 424 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 425 849 998944 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 850 1274 998944 83 Linux native
/dev/sda5 1275 5519 9998864 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 5520 7506 4679016 83 Linux native
Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0 7506 17684136 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb3 u 0 7506 17684136 5 Whole disk
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Anyone see anything wrong with that? for some reason my swap was originally labeled as read only but I "fixed" that. My last question has to do with the whole disk partitions....should they be read only or does that even matter? |
OK I am guessing you have somthing like:
/dev/sda1 - /
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - whole disk
/dev/sda4 - /var
/dev/sda5 - /usr
/dev/sda6 - /???
/dev/sdb1 - /???
You could also use LVM to run the two large partitions into one or whatever you want to do with it |
I'm a weirdo. I like to keep my mail and home on dedicated partitions. Makes it easier to maintain and allows for me to easily blow out the system and reinstall without losing any data. I am more concerned with the fact that I couldn't use the default values and had to choose sectors manually. Its working sofar except for the kernel compile hanging on PCMCIA
/dev/sda1 - /
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - whole disk
/dev/sda4 - /var
/dev/sda5 - /usr
/dev/sda6 - /var/spool/mail
/dev/sdb1 - /home |
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