Hi.
I plan to install Redhat on my new 3.2G hard drive sometime in the
future (after I get a CD-ROM drive and the CD), along with DOS/Win3.11,
but would like to partition the drive correctly now to avoid the hassle
later. I have a 486 DX2 currently with 24M of RAM, but that will probably
increase to 32M or 40M by the time I'm ready to install, and also a 345M
drive as a slave drive. I don't plan on having alot of users taking up
alot of disc space, nor do I plan to have it connected to the net
constantly (a few hours a day, actually), but I will be using it mostly
for myself.
Basically, I just want to verify what I read in several online
docs and HOWTOs to see if folks think what I came up with will work, or if
anybody could suggest anything better. I know I'll reserve the first
partition, around 100M, for root and all that. Next could be, maybe 700M
or so for /home, followed by a 500M primary DOS partition. The remaining
~1.9G would be an extended partition, with maybe 500M for /usr (and
anything /usr might need), 100M for swap, and a few DOS partitions. Does
that sound like a decent setup?
Now, would anything in my system complain about having an extended
partition of that size? Would it be a good idea to keep all of the linux
partitions together, with swap in the middle, (like maybe make swap and
/usr the first two partitions within the extended partition, hda5 and
hda6 respectively)? With this setup, the primary DOS partition would be
located about 1.4G into the drive. Would DOS complain about this? (My
motherboard does support LBA, and DOS fdisk does see the entire capacity
of the drive.) Of course, I could always put my primary DOS partition
right after the Linux root partition. Good Ideas? Bad Ideas?
Ok, I think that's about all I have. I'd appreciate any hints or
suggestions. Thanks.
Jamie Kufrovich
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