ok- you sound like someone who is confident with partitioning, so I'll launch into a fuller explaination- here's my set up before the hdd went clunk (not cause of the partitioning, because they were old and sucky) - this is from memory and simplified- I had a couple of distros going.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=334307
hda is the first hardrive- 10gb.
hdb is the second hardrive- 20gb.
Quote:
Originally posted by ReefShark (in another thread)
..:: HDA ::..
swap (512 MB)
NTFS (5 GB)
/home (?? GB)
/tmp (?? GB)
..:: HDB ::..
swap (512 MB)
/boot (150 MB)
--- extended ---
/ -> rpm based
/ -> debian based
/ -> slackware based
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Quote:
Originally posted by titanium_geek (in another thread)
..:: hda (16GB) ::..
swap (512 MB)
/boot (150 MB)
*extended...*
/ (rpm - mandrake) 6GB
/ (slack - vector linux) 5GB
/ (debian - knoppix) 5GB
..:: hdb (19GB) ::..
swap (512 mb)
NTFS (5GB)
/home (8.7 GB)
/tmp (4.8 GB)
------------------
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you have three drives- I suggest you keep one for windows. on the linux space, put:
swap (512mb)
/ boot (2GB)
/ (6 GB? if you have space to burn up this)
/ home (10GB? pretty big-)
/ usr (this is where your programs go- again, big- 5GB
+
/ var (if you plan on using this as a server, esp a webserver, make it as big as /usr)
/ tmp (no more than 5GB really- kept separate to help computer health)
/ usr/local? no idea- if you want to- i guess...
the simplest way would be to have
/swap
/ everything else all lumped in
i would personally go for (if I wanted to make it good + simple)
/swap
/boot
/
/all else
the "rules" are:
/swap is half your memory up to 1GB- then just do 512mb
should be the first sector
/tmp shouldn't be that big
/boot shouldn't be too big either
the place where you save your files (ie /home) should be big enough for the expected data.
hope this helps
titanium_geek
