Re: [BLUG] Amarok

Matthew Patenaude wrote:

> Question: If you install another Linux on your hard drive, how do you
> make enough partitions? /home obviously can be used by whatever distro
> is on there, so you don't need more that one /home, but are you still
> limited by the <4 primary partitions? Do you have to set up logical
> partitions to manage the different Linuxes you have installed? I prefer
> to have several primary partitions, but have never needed more than /,
> /home, and /swap. That's three already, so suppose you like to set up /
> , /usr, /home, /swap, and you want another Linux with its own /, and
> /usr, making a total of six partitions?

Four primaries are the limit, one of which can be extended with any
number of logicals within. The GParted Live CD is indispensable for
partition work, IMO.

As an example, here is my layout (notice that all logicals begin with
#5, regardless of the extended partition they're in):

sda/160G

sda1 windows
sda2 swap
sda3 extended
sda5 boot
sda6 mepis root
sda7 backups

sdb/500G

sdb1 swap
sdb2 extended
sdb5 ubuntu
sdb6 etch
sdb7 pclos
sdb8 suse11
sdb9 /home
sdb10 archives
sdb11 fat32

I back up my /home from sdb to sda; covers me on hardware failure.

And one of the "play" installs I've got is going to get blown out for
the MEPIS 8 beta series.

--
Mark Warner
SimplyMEPIS Linux v6.5
Registered Linux User #415318

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