[mdlug] Too many partitions?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Drew wrote:
>      On getting the latest Ubuntu I had created yet another logical 
> partition, at the end of the chain, of
> course, slipping it just before the last partition which is the 
> common /tmp, in the hope of creating an
> on-disk LiveCD like I had previously done with RIPLinux and PC-OS. 
> It's not working out so well for
> this LiveCD, but that's another topic.
> 
>      Before creating the partition I had
> 
> /dev/sda1        Legacy FAT  (It doesn't take up much space so might 
> as well keep it around)
> /dev/sda2        320BOOT      Some common stuff plus the Grub stuff for the MBR
> /dev/sda3        320DATA       Common data partition
> /dev/sda4        Extended
>      /dev/sda5        320SUSE
>      /dev/sda6        RIPLinux boot CD
>      /dev/sda7        PC-OS boot CD  ****
>      /dev/sda8        320FEDORA
>      /dev/sda9        320SCIENTIFIC (Scientific Linux, which I've 
> found nothing scientific about)
>      /dev/sda10      320TMP    Common /tmp
> 
>      I deleted the last one, and inserted two for the following:
> 
> ....
> 
>      /dev/sda9        320SCIENTIFIC
>      /dev/sda10      Partition for UBUNTU LiveCD
>      /dev/sda11      Common /tmp, moved back one notch.
> 
>      Since I mount all my filesystems by label nowadays I figured I 
> could do this.
> 
>      However, when I booted up PC-OS the GUI failed to start. I got 
> as far as a command prompt then it
> stopped. I then put the filesystems back the way they were before and 
> tried again. I finally got the GUI
> running. It seems that PC-OS doesn't want to run properly on a system 
> with more than 9 (or 10 if you
> count the extended) partitions.
> 
>      I had hoped to keep PC-OS as it has all the codecs right on the 
> media - no need to chase after them.
> I had also hoped to put a few more distributions on the hard drive.
> 
>      Any way to fix this?

Your partition numbers do NOT have to correlate to the
order of their physical arrangement on the disk....so
take note of the start and end-points on the disk, and
re-arrange the partitions (maybe make /tmp to be /dev/sda5
even though it is at the end of the disk....and then
assign all of the other partitions in order

/dev/sda1	Legacy FAT  (It doesn't take up much space so might 
		as well keep it around)
/dev/sda2	320BOOT      Some common stuff plus the Grub stuff 			for the MBR
/dev/sda3	320DATA       Common data partition
/dev/sda4        Extended
     /dev/sda5      Common /tmp, moved back one notch.  (PHYSICALLY
			still the highest-numbered cylinders)
     /dev/sda6        320SUSE (PHYSICAL beginning of /dev/sda4
     /dev/sda7        RIPLinux boot CD
     /dev/sda8        PC-OS boot CD  ****
     /dev/sda9        320FEDORA
     /dev/sda10        320SCIENTIFIC (Scientific Linux,
			which I've found nothing scientific about)
     /dev/sda11      Partition for UBUNTU LiveCD