Hello,

I have a spare disk of 60G which i want to use to try slackware.

My memory is 1G
Processor : AMD64 3500 +

What's the best way to partition this disk ?

Roelof

depends on how crazy you want to get... / 100% is the easiest.. if you want to make sure logging doesn't squash the system partition, you can slice one off for /var/log. If you want to make /home non-executable, you can slice one off for that two...

IMHO, / 100% is the best way to go unless you have special requirements.

oke,

You mean one partition for everything ?

Roelof

yep

It depends, if you plan on updating your system and keeping your /home directory safe, then make a / and /home. If you don't care about this, then just make one large partition / (this is what I do, just to force myself to backup my data, because I'm lazy and don't like to back it up, and it also gets rid of lots of junk software that I installed, forgot, and never used again).

I would suggest a minimum of two partitions, a primary and a 2GB swap partition. You can run Slackware without a swap partition with 1GB of RAM, but having a swap partition is useful if you want to handle large files (e.g. video editing).

You could also consider splitting your primary partition into two equal partitions, one to hold the official 12.2 release and a second to hold slackware-current so that you can use KDE 4.2 from /testing. Having a stable setup to boot to when running slackware-current has saved me a lot of grief in the past.

I too would recommend a swap partition, I didn't mention that but assumed that you were asking about the partitioning of the root partition only, and that you already made a swap partition. Technically you could also use the swap files method if you already installed everything.

Oeps,

I installed everything in one big partition (JFS) without a swap partition.
Can i repair this or do i have to do the install again.

Roelof

Just use swap files:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ap-adding.html
or
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/setting_up_swap.html
if you need them, if you have enough RAM you might not.

If you've not spent much time customising/setting up your system, then it might be worth reinstalling with a proper swap partition (it doesn't take long with slackware and its all good experience). If you've got to the stage where you've already spent too much time/effort on setting up your system to lose, then follow TexMex' advice and use swap files. With 1G ram, they probably won't get used much anyway and you can always repartition the next time you come to re-install.

The way it tends to go is that people start off with one big root partition and as they become more experienced they'll probably move to a separate /home, and later still they may also start to partition off other stuff depending on their own preferences.

Hello,

Im now using a swap file.
But don't i have to change in /etc/fstab now.

Roelof

adding an entry for the swap to fstab will ensure it gets activated automatically on bootup.

Something along the lines of
The second field is commonly coded as 'swap', but the manual page for fstab actually tells you to use 'none'. My guess is that the field just gets ignored. I'm not sure which is more correct.

Hello,

Everybody thank you for the help.
Everything works fine now.

Roelof