During the installation you get to partition the drive. The program Disk
Druid does this and you tell it which mount points are assigned to which
partitions (eg. partition 1 (hdb1) /, partition 2 (hdb2) /usr, etc.). If
your just beginning, I found it easier to just throw everything on one
partition. Maybe it's not as secure and there are reasons to break up the
drive, but there's reasons not to as well. For instance, what if you don't
partition enough space? Then you either need to delete files or reinstall
and rework the partitions meaning you lose all your data. Basically, if
you're just starting, use one partition and just mount /.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Little [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 8:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some basic installation questions
Hi,
As I wait for my rh6.1 cd to arrive in the mail I have a few questions
about the installation. I have decided to use my second IDE drive which is
1.6 GB in space for redhat, but I am unsure on how I should partition it
up. Do I just stick everything into one partition and have a separate one
for swap space? I read somewhere that I should have separate partitions for
/etc, /var, /usr, /tmp, /home for security reasons. How much disk space
would I assign to each directory? Bear in mind I wouldn't have anymore than
5 users on my machine. Also, how do I tell the setup that I have separate
partitions for /etc, /var, etc... ? I thought the setup program wacks it
all into the one partition, no questions asked.
Thanks in advance :)
Nelson
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