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 What problem are you trying to solve? > 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.... > > Are there any serious advantages/disadvantages to having /boot in the > middle > of the disk and / after it? > > 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 There is no advantage*, with Linux 2.6 kernels, to having a swap partition over having a swap file. Swap files are more flexible, easier to manage. As a Linux Kernel Engineer, you should know that;-) * unless you're using suspend to disk, I'm not sure about that. > partitions to the new locations, then update the grub.conf and voila! (I > would hope....) > > I'm also wondering about complications from having the swap and / > partitions > inside the extended partition.... At one point I had RHEL Beta 5 Client and Server, SLED and SUSE 10.x on the one box. Might have had FC6 too. The only complication was that Anaconda couldn't handle repartitioning the drive. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list