Single comment inserted below. > Michael Johnson wrote: > >>I have some questions about howto setup a (kinda) optimal partitioning >> for my 160GB (~153GB) harddrive >> >>I figured something like: >>C:\ 15GB winXP ntfs >>D:\ 110 GB data fat32 >>/boot 64MB >>/ 15GB >>/home 10GB >> >>My questions are as follows: >>* Do I have enough room for arch? >> >> > Yup your root dir is bigger than my whole hard disk and I have a dual > boot with WinXP > >>* Should I have D as above or would it be better to have one 100GB ntfs >> partition and one 10-20GB fat32 partition for exchanging data? >> >> > I have two shared fat32 partitions - i only use ntfs for my WinXP > partition > >> >>greatful for all advice/hints >> >> > Remember your /boot part has to be at the start of the disk.
Uh...NO....It only has to be a primary partition to be *universally usable*, which means he is o.k. as it is in the first three IF setup correctly. Very best regards; Bob Finch > > I'd use a seperate /var partition too - some people use a seperate /usr > partition but they lose access to common apps during boot a separate > /var is good in Arch as that's where all the pacman pkg, src and > database is stored - it's good to keep and eye on that stuff in a > separate place :) > >> >>/michael >> >>_______________________________________________ >>arch mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
