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Hi!
I`ve installed Arch, but made a bit of mistake when partitioning my HDD. I`ve made 4 primary partitions: swap, /, /var and /home. Now i`ve got ~200Ggb of free space left on my HDD, but i can`t create a partition, since the primary partition limit is reached. So i thought of deleting the /var partition ( only 7Ggb ), creating the extended partition on those 200Ggb, and creating three partitions there: two for my own needs and a /var partition. My question is: will Arch recognize the /var partition on the extended one as his own? Or will i mess things up?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi!
I`ve installed Arch, but made a bit of mistake when partitioning my HDD. I`ve made 4 primary partitions: swap, /, /var and /home. Now i`ve got ~200Ggb of free space left on my HDD, but i can`t create a partition, since the primary partition limit is reached. So i thought of deleting the /var partition ( only 7Ggb ),
why don't you simply extend your home partition with gparted?
creating the extended partition on those 200Ggb, and creating three partitions there: two for my own needs and a /var partition. My question is: will Arch recognize the /var partition on the extended one as his own?
sure, if you make an entry in /etc/fstab. afaik, there is no user noticeable difference between primary/extended partitions (the differences are only of technical nature, eg you cannot make a extended swap partition).
wikipedia knows it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning
vlad
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why don't you simply extend your home partition with gparted?
I don`t want my data to depend on OS partitions.
sure, if you make an entry in /etc/fstab
Ok, i`ll do that! Thanks for reply
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You could even prevent loss of data (eg, your pacman cache, logs etc) by using CloneZilla LiveCD to backup your /var and then restore it after.
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