The official Red Hat suggestion is a swapper that is 2X actual memory. A /boot
drive of 20Mb and the rest as / . I personally don't like to break things up
further. That said this will likely be an interesting thread.
It should be fairly easy to set up LILO to boot multiple systems. I don't fully
understand what you want to do but I gather you'd like to use the old drive for a
little while. I presume you want to boot from the new drive but use files on the
old. Just install LILO on the new drive and configure the lilo.conf file to point
at the old drive.
Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> OK,
>
> Here's fodder for a great discussion/flame war.
>
> I just bought a 10 gig drive (the smallest available) to replace a failing
> drive. The drive that is failing is of course the drive I boot from and that
> has /, /root, /usr, /etc, /opt, /tmp, /var, /usr/local, and /usr/src all as
> separate file systems. Basically it's where all my system software lives.
> User data is on different spindles or different partitions on that drive. So
> now I have an opportunity to reorganize my system software partitions.
>
> So I suggest that we discuss
> 1) which directories should be separate file systems
> 2) how big should they be
> 3) other stuff related to disk organization
>
> If anybody remembers how to set up a drive to be a bootable drive while on a
> system that still works, I'd wellcome tips in private email. I'm sure the
> group has heard it before. Although there is no HOWTO on this and I just might
> contribute one when this process is over. It's nice to have the luxury of a
> gradually failing system to do this on.
>
> Than
>
>
>
> -- Standard is better than better.
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