Dan Furtney wrote: > > I know repartitioning with fdisk/cfdisk is destructive. Is ADDING a > partition destructive? I have a 10 gig drive: 4gb(Win), 2gb(RH) and the > rest unpartitioned. It seems that partitioning the remaining space > wouldn't hurt the existing partitions but I'm not sure. (came so close to > trying it anyway ;) ) > > Also, In the past I have created separate partitions for /home, ,/usr, /, > and swap. I read somewhere in the documentation that gziped programs > should be installed in /usr/local. This leads me to believe that .deb > packages are installed in /usr. True? If so, would I benefit by creating > both /usr and a /usr/local partitions? What are you guys/gals doing? > Thanks. > > -Dan
You can add a partition with fdisk or cfdisk without any data loss in your old partitions (it is the way I installed my system), but be careful, you can easily destroy your data. The only partitions required to install a Linux system are the swap partition and the root partition (/). Any others partitions are optional. For example, if your system is a personal home computer, you could create only these two partitions. Now if your system will be used by many users, it's may be better to add a partition for the /home directory. Look inside the Debian installation guide for more info: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html But may be have you not fully understood the way partitions are working under Linux (totally different of windows). In this case, read the chapter 13 of Debian tutorial, for a very good intro on file system and partitioning. http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/index.html -Florian
