On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:59:32AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > Due to the peculiar way that my root drive is configured (incomplete advance > planning for Windows to Linux conversion), I have had thoughts about moving > /boot and / to a different place on the drive. Current configuration is: > > sda1 - 30Gb primary partition (was the E: drive) > sda2 - 120 Gb primary partition (was my H: drive) > sda3 - 100Mb /boot primary partition > sda4 - Extended partition > sda5 - 4Gb swap partition > sda6 - 145Gb / partition > > I was thinking about rearranging the disk to a more conventional layout > where /boot is first, swap next, / next and the rest after that. It > probably isn't necessary since the drive runs fine (well, almost - last > night /boot developed a weirdity in its superblock and I had to recover with > the install DVD in rescue mode and using the alternate superblock, but it's > back up and running, having survived the boot fsck), but I was wondering if > anyone had tried something like this before. Besides, having a backup (or > new) /boot might not be a bad idea after last night.... If you want, send me privately the contents of /boot and I'll make an iso for you (or just learn how to use mkisofs and isolinux ;). > Are there any serious advantages/disadvantages to having /boot in the middle > of the disk and / after it? Not really, If you're using sata then I suppose your bios isn't limited as the older ones where. > I was thinking that I could remove the 1 & 2 partitions, recreate them with > a hole in between for a (new/replacement) swap, and copy the original > partitions to the new locations, then update the grub.conf and voila! (I > would hope....) Don't forget /etc/fstab and rerun grub-install. Also, printout the output of sfdisk -d. > I'm also wondering about complications from having the swap and / partitions > inside the extended partition.... Not really, but don't forget that the lower (ie., near the end) portions of harddisks are the slower ones. -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070411/4eda7ca8/attachment-0004.sig>