New Installation /root /swap /home partitions

[justin_c18]

I've just installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 onto my laptop with the alternate installation disc. I've made three separate parttions as follows. 1 GB /swap, 14 GB /root, and 64 GB /home. Something similar to that anyway.


sudo fdisk -lu shows:



Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier:


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 1959929 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 1959930 31262489 14651280 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 31262490 156296384 62516947+ 83 Linux



sudo nano /etc/fstab says:



# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=bc316f53-8ed0-4160-abac-16c52bb9af6b / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=b3e909aa-cc20-49d5-a18c-3eada0771274 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=0a0902f0-9d06-45b1-b567-4025fc0be5be none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


Now, I'm not exactly sure if all the partitions are detected or are used. But right after finishing setting up the partitions in Hardy it went straight into the install. I figured I would have had to enable the partitions.

How can I see if both root and swap are in use, and if everything is setup proper?

I'm possibly trying to be overly cautious, I don't know. But, Chakra was weird, I had to enable the usage of the swap partition for some reason. But I guess ubuntu ~= Chakra. Or, Debian ~= Arch.

Thanks. Looking forward to a response.

[ploom]

By paste'ings yere You appear to have three partitions nicely set up. just direct them the same way with installer...

[justin_c18]

By paste'ings yere You appear to have three partitions nicely set up. just direct them the same way with installer...

Thanks dude. Appreciate it, and your time looking at the post. It's all groovy.

Have a good one.
Thanks again.

[vanadium]

Indeed, all looks good indeed, but if you want to make sure



mount

will tell you which partitions are mounted and where, and


cat /proc/swaps

(or "swapon -s") will tell you what swap space is in use.

[justin_c18]

Indeed, all looks good indeed, but if you want to make sure



mount

will tell you which partitions are mounted and where, and


cat /proc/swaps

(or "swapon -s") will tell you what swap space is in use.

Thanks a lot. 2nd time this post has helped me since writing it. :D