On 07/01/2009 03:28 PM, Mick M. wrote: > Hi; > I would like some input on disk partitions. > I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, > > At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. > The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives. > > I want to remove the IDE drive and install XPx64 on the new drive as a VirtualBox image. > I also want to install F11 on that drive. > > My other SATA drive is F10, I want to leave that alone and dual boot F10/F11. > > OK - what do you suggest for partitions on this drive? > I want to use "regular" partitions - not the default LVM stuff. > > I was thinking: > 1 /boot ext3 200M > 2 swap 82 4G ( I have 2G memory) > 3 / ext4 250G > 4 extended rest about 750G with ext3 > > Will VirtualBox work with ext4? > I have a very similar situation. I was planning on using my 160GB drive for F10, and placing F11 on the new drive. However through stupidity I formatted my existing 160 :-[ . So, I ended up placing F11 on the 1TB with /boot as the first partition, and LVM taking he rest of the volume. I now have the 160GB drive as a backup. However, I set that up as an LVM physical volume, but I'm wondering if I lose my other disk how readable that is, so I may simply reallocate that as a single partition EXT3 or 4. I have allocated some space on my 1TB drive for use by KVM. KVM has no trouble with ext4, and I suspect that Virtualbox shouldn't either. In your specific case, the major changes I would make would be to use physical partition 2 or 3 for the extended and place root, and possibly swap in the extended partition. Otherwise, I think your use of the other SATA drive is the way I had initially planned. I do think you would be better using either QEMU or Xen with KVM as your Virtual Machine manager. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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