On Tuesday 21 June 2005 01:46, 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? > * 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?
Possible problem: You can't make >32GB FAT32 partition. Well, Linux can make it that big (I think), but Windows (XP) definitely can't (or.. it couldn't when I tried this). Under these conditions, I can't say for sure how the 100GB+ FAT32 partition will work under Windows (even created under Linux or some other third-party program). On the other hand, the NTFS partition can be very large (don't remember the limit though). Unfortunately, the Linux support is not that great. Possible solution: keep many ~30GB FAT32 partitions around. / is enough /home - I don't know.. I keep a pretty big /home because I keep many things in it (mine is ~40GB) Keeping /var separate might be a good idea. I kept /var on /home some time ago (symlinked). Good luck. Mircea /IceRAM -- http://mircea.bardac.net
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