Matt Garman wrote: > > Hello: > > It's been quite a while since I've installed Debian. Last time I did an > install, it was by putting the whole system on one partition. > > Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions, i.e. put /usr/ on one > partition, /home/ on another, etc. I want to do this for ease of > backups and some security benefits. > > My question is: how does this affect the installation process? Are > there any "gotchas" I should look out for, having my disc split up as > such? I'll be doing the floppy+ftp method of installing potato.
I did this successfully. I used cfdisk and specified the size of each partition in cylinders. Type "C" after specifying the numerical number of cylinders for the partition in question. In cfdisk, the "u" option changes the relevant values. I have : fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes ( Thus, each cylinder equals 8.225 Mb. Use this number to calculate, in cylinders, the size of each partition you want)) Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Label /dev/hdb1 * 1 50 401593+ 83 Linux / /dev/hdb2 51 769 5775367+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb3 770 784 120487+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb5 51 292 1943833+ 83 Linux /home /dev/hdb6 293 534 1943833+ 83 Linux /usr /dev/hdb7 535 697 1309266 83 Linux /usr/local /dev/hdb8 698 769 578308+ 83 Linux /var I have a 6.4Gb disk. Remember to initialize _and_ mount each partition you create _before_ installing the kernel/modules/packages. You will specify the label for each partition when you do this. Cheers, -- Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.com http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
