Drive Setup for YDL

[mike newman]

when i installed 2.3 (haven't made the 3.0 plunge yet) to my new hard
drive, i first partitioned it in apple's disk doctor as:
  12 gig unallocated
  5 gig HFS
  rest unallocated then on installing ydl2.3 i chopped up the first block
i then and installed ydl in the first block (suitably subdivided), and
made a few /backup partitions in the end block as well. i ended up doing
several reinstalls (and repartitioning) of ydl into the first 12 gig. the
partition number of the 5 gig HFS never changed, and it seems that the
physical order and numerical order of my partitions do not match. doesn't
seem to be a problem; in fact, aside from looking at the partition tables
i'm not sure it's possible to tell.

i would be curious to know if there are reasons to put partitions near the
top/bottom/middle of a disk? aside from hardware or software compatibility
issues, if one has a choice is there a preference?

mike newman


On Tue, 13 May 2003, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Please correct me if I'm wrong here...
>
> Unless there's something I don't know going on, you probably want to put
> the 'free space' at the high-numbered partitions end of the disk so you
> don't have to change the partition number of your YDL boot partition
> every time you reconfigure the free-space.  Splitting a low-numbered
> partition may cause all higher numbered partitions to change their numbers.
>
> Of course, if one of the OS'es that you want to put in that free space
> can't handle large partition numbers, that might change the equation a bit...
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Rick
>
> "nathan r. hruby" wrote:
> >
> > Hey There!
> >
> > So.. I have a second disk on which I'm going to install YDL3 (already
> > prepared for the 'second disk issue' :)  But I'm wondering what the
> > best layout for this disk should be.  It's a 180GB disk on which I want to
> > use a portion of the space for an additional MocOSX install, possibly a
> > test OSX-Server install, YDL, and possibly Gentoo as well :)
> >
> > So.. I'm thinking (From a Disk Utility Prespective) I should layout the
> > disk in this order:
> > # Top/front of disk
> >   - 60 GB Unallocated for Linux(es) to chop up into bite size pieces for
> >     each linux.
> >   - 40 GB OSX
> >   - 40 GB OSX-Server
> >   - 20 GB Empty HFS+ to play with
> > # bottom/end of disk
> >
> > Anyone see issues with that layout?  Additionally, this disk will need to
> > boot into os9, so I'm going to need to install the drivers on to the
> > disk, I recall there there's an issue with having more that 17 partitions
> > on a disk.. is this still a truism?  I might run into that.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > -n
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------
> > nathan hruby <nathan@drama.uga.edu>
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