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Old 11-24-2003, 03:02 PM   #1
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Question Partition scheme (two small hd)


What would be a good partitioning scheme for the following drives, which put together should allow a full install of Slack (appx. 2Gb).

/dev/hda 500 Mb drive
/dev/hdb 1.5 Gb drive


I have tried the following scheme and it runs out of space.

hda1 1 30 Linux Swap
hda2 31 524 Extended
hda5 31 75 /boot
hda6 76 100 /tmp
hda7 101 120 /usr

hdb3 1 827 /


If I am correct, the root directory should be put on the larger drive in order to get everything install. Right now, very soon after attempting the install, it runs out of space.

I have tried a few different things, other than this, but still no go. My only reasoning behind separating out the partitions like the above is to get only root on the second limited hard drive and thought this setup would install some of the other things on the other partitions. Wrong assumption maybe.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreactiated.

Thank you,

-joseph

Last edited by joseph_1970; 11-24-2003 at 03:18 PM.
 
Old 11-24-2003, 03:09 PM   #2
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Quote:
/dev/hda 5 Mb drive
I hope that's meant to be 0.5GB, right? :)

With that layout I wouldn't bother too
much about sub-dividing, really. Try
/dev/hda1 ext2 /boot 32MB
/dev/hda2 swap (??? MB)
/dev/hda3 reiserfs /var (REST)
/dev/hdb1 reiserfs / (ALL)

If you find you're running out of space
on root you can still for example
have tmp in /var, and make it a
symlink in /

Cheers,
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Old 11-24-2003, 03:19 PM   #3
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Thanks for the quick reply. I will give it a go!

Oh, and yes I changed it to 500 Mb. lol

-joseph
 
  


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