On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:46 +0200, Michael Johnson wrote:
> I have some questions about howto setup a (kinda) optimal partitioning
> for my 160GB (~153GB) harddrive 
>  
> I figured something like:
> C:\    15GB  winXP ntfs
> D:\    110 GB data fat32
> /boot  64MB
> /        15GB
> /home 10GB
>  
> My questions are as follows:
> * Do I have enough room for arch?
> * Should I have D as above or would it be better to have one 100GB ntfs
> partition and one 10-20GB fat32 partition for exchanging data?
>  
> greatful for all advice/hints
>  
> /michael

You won't need the /boot, it can reside on / nowadays. Having a
separate /boot is from the days lilo couldn't boot across the 1024
cylinder boundary, or is a requirement when you use software RAID-0 or
RAID-5.


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