On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Roger Turk wrote: > have been hesitant to use the fdisk that > comes with Red Hat as it warns that if you make a mistake, fdisk can wipe out > your entire HD, including other partitions. (I have multi-boot partitions > for DOS and W98 in one machine created with System Commander.) I'm sure System Commander is capable of wiping out your hard drive as well. Apparently their warnings just aren't as dire. ;-) > However, it seems that everyone is "dumbing down" to Windoze's > automatic installation procedures and not giving the user succinct > information as to exactly what partitions are necessary or should be created. Many people simply use a swap partition, and one for everything else. It works fine that way. Others look ahead to the day they want to upgrade or switch distributions, and put /home and maybe /usr on separate partitions, so when upgrade day comes, they format everything except those partitions with data they want to save. > I have my DOS machines partitioned in a logical (to me anyway) manner, and I > would like to do the same things with Linux. "Logical" is different for everyone depending on how much hard drive you have and what sort of applications you're running. - Steve
