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Ok, so I have a laptop that I am preparing for college next week. I am planing to dual boot arch as my main os, and BT5. So I am trying to map out my partitions. My idea is to have seperate home drives and a dedicated storage partition to mount on both whenever I need something out of it. But I am not sure if it will work.
Right now it looks like this.
Backtrack 5
ext4 / 20gb
ext4 /home 30gb
Storage
ext4 ? 300gb
--Extended
Arch
ext 4 / 20gb
ext4 /home 80gb
swap 1gb
ext4 boot 256mb
What do I need to do? I have all as ext4, is that alright?
Edit: Or should I make my arch home really big and just mount that?
Edit2: I got BT5 installed and am trying to mount my storage drive. I did
mount -t ext4 -o n1s=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sha8 /media
and I go this back "mount: special device sha8 does not exist"
So what should I do to get it to mount?
Last edited by NoxSec (2011-08-20 14:14:50)
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Is your swap formatted as ext4?
Not sure how well Windows can read from ext4.
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Could you not just have one 110 Gb /home shared across both? Also, doesn't swap have its own format?
Laptops:
MSI GS60 Ghost
Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VW
Lenovo Thinkpad X120e
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Is your swap formatted as ext4?
Not sure how well Windows can read from ext4.
I am not using windows just arch and backtrack.
Could you not just have one 110 Gb /home shared across both? Also, doesn't swap have its own format?
I think the configs would be messed up.
Last edited by NoxSec (2011-08-20 03:17:55)
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karol wrote:Is your swap formatted as ext4?
Not sure how well Windows can read from ext4.
I am not using windows just arch and backtrack.
Oh God, I somehow saw W7S (Windows 7 Starter) instead of BT5.
Time to bed. Sorry for the noise.
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If I were designing the partition scheme...
I would keep seperate /home partitions to avoid a configuration mishap.
You could also mount Arch's /home in Backtrack as a mount point of something like /ArchHome for whenever you need access to files on that partition. If you do that, you might not even have to make a storage partition.
Last edited by themattbeballin (2011-08-20 04:30:55)
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