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On my dual-boot laptop I have a fairly complete F7 installation in half of the 80Gb drive. Here's how it's partitioned:

Code:

$ /sbin/fdisk -l



Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *        894        5730    38853202+  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2              1        893    7172991    b  W95 FAT32

/dev/sda3            5731        5743      104422+  83  Linux

/dev/sda4            5744        9729    32017545    5  Extended

/dev/sda5            5744        9729    32017513+  8e  Linux LVM



Partition table entries are not in disk order

and here's how much of each partition is in use:

Code:

$ df

Filesystem          1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/MX6436_Base      30091284  9095388  19442696  32% /

/dev/sda3              101105    23679    72205  25% /boot

tmpfs                  484360        0    484360  0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1            38853200  13007284  25845916  34% /hd/c

/dev/sda2              7158988  2455876  4703112  35% /hd/d

So, as you can see, I'm using 32% of a 40Gb partition for F7, and 25% of a 100Mb partition for the boot stuff. (I'm also using several Gb on the XP drive (/hd/c) to store text and pfd files in NTFS compressed directories, and JPEG files in an uncompressed directory. The ntfs-3g file system driver makes sharing NTFS and Linux files quite painless.)

Note 1: The "Partition table entries are not in disk order" (in the first output snippet) because Gateway formats the disk with a small "Mini NT" boot partition for "system recovery" and the rest of the disk as XP, and they chose to put that boot partition at the start of the disk, but entered it in the table as the second entry. And the "Extended" partition overlaps the "LVM" partition because the "extended" partition "contains" any partition entry with a partition number greater than 4.

Note 2: The /dev/MX6436_Base entry would be /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 in a default F7 installation. I prefer more mnemonic names - the laptop I'm using is a Gateway MX6436.