We recently installed 2 ESX 3.0.2 servers and accepted the default disk layout. On a 73G RAID1, we have 5G for root, 100M for /boot, and 2G for /var/log. Since there should be over 65G left after swap, I want to make use of some of this space to store iso images. My partition table looks like this:
Disk /dev/sdf: 72.9 GB, 72999763968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8875 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sdf2 14 650 5116702+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdf3 651 8539 63368392+ fb Unknown
/dev/sdf4 8540 8875 2698920 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdf5 8540 8608 554211 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdf6 8609 8862 2040223+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdf7 8863 8875 104391 fc Unknown
Where sdf1 is boot, sdf2 is root, and sdf6 is /var/log. My question is - What is sdf3? I do not see fb listed as a partition type, so is this just unused free space, or does vmware use that partition? Am I free to carve it up and mount it under /vmimages to store iso's?
Thanks - Matt