From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E2513877A for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62CCBE08D0; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail101c7.megamailservers.com (mail717.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.27]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 262F1E08A8 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:54:10 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail101c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s84Ds8Wf003821 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:54:10 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AFF0620027C; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:54:17 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:54:17 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions Message-ID: <20140904135417.GG7483@syscon7> References: <20140904043032.GD7483@syscon7> <20140904082528.5cd26f81@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140904130528.GF7483@syscon7> <20140904142919.19d00271@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140904142919.19d00271@hactar.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.54086F02.0136,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=bYZSDo/B c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=AFRrC095_iMA:10 a=4551mSReTEoA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=7mOBRU54AAAA:8 a=LlDZKX5UFjm_mZYh1OwA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 77a386e6-a9de-43aa-9e3a-8790d3270347 X-Archives-Hash: 12e17d4e7bfb713504ffd538cdeb5b41 On 09/04/14 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> >Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors >> >Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> >Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes >> >I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >> >Disklabel type: gpt >> >Disk identifier: 04EFD165-FDDF-4C24-BA81-868B97BF9949 >> > >> >Device Start End Size Type >> >/dev/sda1 2048 4095 1M BIOS boot partition >> >/dev/sda2 4096 2101247 1G Linux filesystem >> >/dev/sda3 2101248 35655679 16G Linux swap >> >/dev/sda4 35655680 5860533134 2.7T Linux filesystem >> > >> >Here sda1 is the BIOS boot and sda2 is /boot. >> > >> >> The instruction from official Gentoo web-page is difference from >> >> display I'm getting on my screen when I use "fdisk" >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4 >> > >> >If you are using GPT partitons, and you should, gdisk is the tool to >> >use (emerge sys-apps/gptfdisk). >> > >> >> I don't have an option of extended partition not can I make Boot >> >> partition /dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk. >> > >> >GPT is not hindered by any of that legacy "4 partitions is enough for >> >anyone so lets kludge in some more" crap, you just create partitions. >> >> Does GPT needs so much room for boot partition 1G? My current system >> boot partition is 30Mb Gentoo handbook recommend 128Mb > >My BIOS boot partition is 1MB not 1GB. My /boot partition is 1GB to allow >room for a couple of System Rescue CD ISO images. > >> So the boot partition (/dev/sda2) will be ext2. What type of will >> be /dev/sda1 ? ext2 as well. > >No, it's type is "BIOS boot partition", it's a completely different type >of partition and not used by your Linux installation at all, it's purely >there for the BIOS. Thank you for explanation. Is your /home on "root" partition? I've notice that handbook does not designate separate partition for "home" anymore. -- Joseph