Mircea Bardac wrote:
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).
It's only WinXP that can't make larger FAT32 partitions but you can
still use them if you make them somewhere else. MS made it so to make
people switch to NTFS I guess. The largest patition you can create is
124 GB if you use 95,98 or ME because a buggy scandisk. Otherwise it's 2 TB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32
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
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