I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8 books on Linux and have loosely studied this OS for about 3 years. But I am certainly a newbie. So far I have not found a good general reference about partition sizes. The following table shows what hardware I have, disks in use, and planned layout for HD-2 (hdb*). I am concerned about /var in particular ... but will welcome any ideas. The purpose of the Linux box is to learn Linux. I want to be able to practice my very rusty programing skills, in the future set up a very small LAN, and be able to do all the admin. stuff from this main box. Will the "programming package" give me what I need or should I go into "dselect" & pick tasks. ( I guess that would help my learning curve.) Later on, I want to get into HA ( high availablity ) stuff with a 2nd box being a mirrow of this one.
RE-partitioning of 2nd HARD DISK ( IDE ) = 4.102 GB drive on DELL P-200 MMX ( 92 MB RAM ) ####################################################################################### All FILEs are of the ext2fs type. This will be a multi-boot machine, but the first HD is for M$ Windows only at this date. The 2nd HD is for multiple Linux distros, Debian = first 2+ GB and any other L OS will be on whats left. (( NOTE: First HARD DR. = MicroCrap 98 // 2.1 MB. // FAT 32 )) ####################################################################################### Using PARTITION MAGIC program to do 2ND ATTEMPT partitioning. SUN 2003-01-26 re-design choices, which have been put on the HD & checked for bad blocks. Hope to install Debian V 2.1 ( Slink & a half ) from CD-rom that I have on hand. PARTITION TYPES P = primary E = extended L = logical # TYPE MB FILE PURPOSE or FILE NAME 1 P 643 83 D. kernel, Work Station, develope, Networking. 2 P 128 82 SWAP 3 E for logical partitions - - see below starting w/ # 5. 4 P 1890 83 TurboLinux or SuSE or whatever I play w/ next. 5 L 643 83 debian/usr 6 L 31 83 debian/tmp 7 L 300 83 debian/var 8 L 100 83 debian/var/spool/mail 9 L 327 83 debian/home 10 L 64 83 debian/usr/local 1896+ total ################################################################### END 301887 = Linux registration. // 187256 = hardware # Dell P-200 MMX box. Thanking youse guys in advance for any help. peace.! David. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]