Creating new partitions

[Charryl]

I deleted all partitions of my HDD which had contained a dual-boot set-up (WinXP & Ubuntu) and installed Linux Mint Debian 201204 (64-bit).

During installation I accessed http://helpsite.org/linux-mint-debian-edition/ for specific guidance concerning creating new partitions.

So far the operating system is booting and running smoothly but I would be most grateful if an expert could confirm that the HDD is in fact partitioned correctly as the picture in the GParted tutorial differs to the screen-shot of my set-up (the partitions are not placed in the same sequence).
Many thanks in advance.

[oobetimer]

The partitioning is quite OK, but you have installed whole system to partition sda4, so partitions sda1 and sda2 are useless. There is nothing wrong anyway ..

Debian installer works this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AlZuShizE&feature=plcp

[altair4]

If I'm reading this correctly I think the problem is a misunderstanding between "label" and "mount point".

Gparted does not assign mount points only labels. A label is simply a name assigned to that partition.

When you go through the installer of the OS you can assign a partition to a mount point.

It appears you created a separate partition labeled "home" but never assigned it to the mountpoint: /home
It also appears that you labeled sda2 as "/" but you mounted sda4 as "/" and sda2 isn't being mounted at all.
And I don't think you mounted sda1 to anything.

BTW, as stated above this will all still work just not as you had originally wanted. Boot , home, and the the OS itself are all mounted to sda4.

If you run the following command it should tell you what's mounted and where:

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mount

[Oscar799]

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[Charryl]

oobetimer;
I wonder what I did wrong, I thoght I followed the instructions as per <http://helpsite.org/linux-mint-debian-edition/>
Are the instructions wrong?
I am having a really bad time following <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AlZuShizE&feature=plcp> much too fast for me...

Can I fix this with GParted Live CD or should I re-install the os?
(I am planning installing WinXP in Virtual Box after all problems are sorted).
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altair4;
sudo mount
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1735568k,nr_inodes=433892,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2696648e-51ab-4c3b-b02e-b44ecd7aa5dd on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=348196k,mode=755)
tmpfs on /var/run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=696392k)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /var/run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=696392k)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /dev/cgroup/cpu type cgroup (rw,relatime,cpu,release_agent=/usr/local/sbin/cgroup_clean)

sudo fdisk -l -u
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
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0971aa98

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 524288 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1050624 31770623 15360000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 154253312 156301311 1024000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 31770624 154253311 61241344 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
Can this be fixed easily?
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Oscar799;
"Don't fix it if it ain't broken,don't break it if you can't fix it"
I wasn't fixing, I installed an os (obviously unsuccessfully) and came here for assistance.

[oobetimer]

I am having a really bad time following <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AlZuShizE&feature=plcp> much too fast for me...

Probably you have not find to assign the right partitions?

Partition table entries are not in disk order
Can this be fixed easily?

It is not dangerous. It seems to be a common information without measures.

[Charryl]

Thanks all for the useful contributions.
I've decided to re-install the os.
Thanks again!