On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Robert Canary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to bring up a new machine. It has two 68G scsi. When I did
> an install I let RH Install do its own thing and set the partitions the
> way it want to. However, the "/" directory is at 100% full. And now I
> have problems. I reboote the machine, but now Xwin will not start, says
> it find the fixed fonts, however, I run the XConfigurator and it runs
> fine and even starts Xwin.
>
> But anyway, when I do an fdisk of the sda I see
> sda1 = Linux
> sda2 = Extended
> sda5 = Linux
> sda6 = Linux
> sda7 = Linux -> 265041 blocks (units= sectors 1 * 512 bytes)
>
> The install put the sda7 as "/".
>
> Where is sda3 and sda4?
sda1 is probably /boot. It is one of your physical partitions, of which
you are allowed up to four. RH always makes /boot a primary partition,
to make sure it appears at the front of the disk.
The installer has elected to make only two physical partitions. The
second is sda2, which is an extended partition. One of your physical
partitions can be "extended", which means that it can contain additional
logical partitions, in this case, sda5, sda6, sda7. The numbering of
logical partitions always begins with 5 so you can add physical partitions
later.
Where is your swap?
>
> And I have no idea what to do with this LABEL thing in the fstab. That
> will another question later.
You can label partitions with e2label. The installer took care of this
for you. Then you can refer to partitions in /etc/fstab by label instead
of by partition number. This is more flexible than the alternative, but
some people don't like it because they can't easily see which physical
partitions are mapped to which mount points.
In your case, you'll see lines like this in fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
And df will show something like:
/dev/sda7 381139 278332 83129 78% /
/dev/sda1 93329 19139 69371 22% /boot
The connection is shown through e2label:
[root]# e2label /dev/sda7
/
[root]# e2label /dev/sda1
/boot
HTH.
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Matthew Saltzman
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