Jan de Groot wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:46 +0200, 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?
greatful for all advice/hints
/michael
You won't need the /boot, it can reside on / nowadays. Having a
separate /boot is from the days lilo couldn't boot across the 1024
cylinder boundary, or is a requirement when you use software RAID-0 or
RAID-5.
You don't have to use a seperate /boot partiion but it sure is handy if
you run a dual (or higher) booting linux box, as I do. I use one true
/boot partition with the other distros set up to have /boot as an
embedded directory in /. That way vmlinuz and initrd files created
during an install or kernel upgrade can be moved to the true /boot
partition after the fact and lilo or grup updated by hand.
Terry Smith
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