[PLUG] Partitioning Schemes

[Christopher E. Brown]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
>
> > This is why putting your swap partition first is not such a bad idea,
> > and putting your bulk storage last.
>
>   It's been several years since I partitioned a hard drive for a Red Hat
> installation, but I recall not having any control over where partitions were
> placed nor how they were numbered.
>
>   I recall trying to define a file system of a certain size and with a
> specified name (e.g., /dev/hda5), but the Red Hat tool would sometimes --
> usually, actually -- rearrange things despite what I entered.
>
>   Is this a Red Hat thing? What does one do to specify where file systems
> are placed on the drive?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich


The redhat installer likes to do it for you.  There is a method to
handle it manually, but it has been some time since I bothered dealing
with RedHat.

Once can always use 'fdisk', the basic command line tool, instead of
any of the menu based or automagic progs.

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