[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Hi I have a 4GB partition available for Linux, and I would like to
> know how to best partition this for Linux ?
> Thanks
Hi Mike;
As you already know, partitioning issues verge on religious ones:
everyone has "the one true way." We all know, however, that there is not such
critter; a partitioning plan _must_ be based on what you know of your own
needs and how the system is used. It's really easy to create a lot of
partitions, none of them quite the right size, and then spend your time
reinstalling and juggling sizes.
For people who haven't come far enough along the learning curve to know
what's best for their needs, a save approach is the following:
Partition Usage Size
--------- ------------ ----
1 / large
2 /home whatever. I tend to use around 300Mb
3 swap 32/64/128Mb. Needs based. 64M is safe
Is this "optimal"??? No such exists. Is this safe & adequate? Yes, unless
you have a drive larger than 8Gb. If you have a drive > 8Gb you should
probably start out with an 8-10Mb /boot partition as partition #1. Drives
this large will, even with LBA working properly, have >1024 cylinders. You'll
also start getting warning messages from LILO, "Disk Druid" won't work
correctly, and (as I recall) you'll get warning messages from fdisk, also.
Doesn't hurt anything; my drives have 1107 cylinders & I just ignore the
warnings. But I am careful to keep /boot well below the 1024 cylinder point.
Whatever partitioning scheme you adopt won't, in all probability, be a correct
one for you; you'll end up reinstalling & changing. But some close variant of
the above will work well until you know what you want to do & how you'll use
the machine.
Best
rickf
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