ilia_kr Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 (edited) I want to format the hdd to reinstall my fc4 and change partition sizes. I want the partition tree to be like this (current layout made in mandriva): - hdd -- hdc1 = swap -- hdc2 = extended --- hdc3 = / --- hdc4 = enpty, no mount point! --- hdc5 = enpty, no mount point! In fedora the DiscDruid works weirdly, i prefer mandriva's one, but still: How can i create a 3 partitions that one of them is '/' mouted and other don't have a mount point? Thanks P.S. That is urgent, please help as soon as possible!!! Edited June 4, 2006 by ilia_kr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 I don't know how diskdruid works, but mount points are controlled by /etc/fstab. So regardless of what the Fedora partitioning scheme sets up if there is no line in fstab there is no mount. If it sets up a directory for the mount pt it creates you can remove that directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 I'd be tempted, at the point where you choose auto/manual partition with disk druid, to press CTRL-ALT-F2 to get the console prompt, and use fdisk /dev/xxx where xxx is hda, hdb, sda, sdb and so on for your hard disk. You can then create them manually without assigning a mount point, and press CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to manually configure with disk druid, and then just point "/" to the /dev/hdax of your choice and leave the rest. This is how I normally partition. I don't like the way that disk druid always moves my swap to the end of the disk. I prefer it to be the very first partition, as it's supposed to be faster to access at the beginning of the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted June 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 I'd be tempted, at the point where you choose auto/manual partition with disk druid, to press CTRL-ALT-F2 to get the console prompt, and use fdisk /dev/xxx where xxx is hda, hdb, sda, sdb and so on for your hard disk. You can then create them manually without assigning a mount point, and press CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to manually configure with disk druid, and then just point "/" to the /dev/hdax of your choice and leave the rest. This is how I normally partition. I don't like the way that disk druid always moves my swap to the end of the disk. I prefer it to be the very first partition, as it's supposed to be faster to access at the beginning of the disk. Thank you, nice trick, i didn't even think about the console (CTRL-ALT-F2) ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 The only thing to watch out for is that you'd have to toggle the partition for swap that you created by pressing "T" and then "82". Otherwise, it wouldn't be accessible as swap later on when in disk druid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted June 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 thanks ianw1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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