On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, David Wright wrote: > I've got a new computer with a 2GB SCSI disk which I want to partition for > linux. I've stuck a second-hand IDE drive in for DOS, so I was going to > use just primary partitions on the 2GB disk. > > Following other people's experience on this list, I was going to try > > Swap 64MB (there's 32M memory) > / 32MB > /usr 500MB > /foo the rest
<snip> > Is that all there is to it, or have I forgotten something? Hi David, If you can take it away from dos, you might want to consider putting some swap space on the ide disk as well. Partitioning issues and optimization tricks are discussed quite extensively in the Multiple-Disks-Layout mini-HOWTO. You might want to read it before you partition your new disk. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
