On 6/3/05, limahotel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to create a partition on a HD for dual boot Windows/Linux
> installation. Windows will go in the primary, Linux Fedora 3 in the
> Extended. I plan to use Partition Magic to create the extended partition.
> The documentation says the choices for Linux format type are Linuz Ext2 or
> Linus Ext3. Which one should I specify - Ext2 or Ext3?
>
> I noticed an existing installation (on a different HD) that had 3 partitions
> for Linux with sizes of 99.9 M, 255.9 M, and 28.2 G. Yet documentation says
> I will need 2 partitions for the new install - the main one and a swap. Do
> I need 2 or 3? If only 2, what would the 99.9 M be used for on the existing
> install?
The answer to your last question is as follows:
The previous system must have been set up by the RedHat/Fedora
installer automatically, with no user intervention. The nominally
100M partition is /boot, and is used to hold bootable system images
and files associated with the GRUB booter,. The nominally 256M
partition is swap, perhaps sized at minimum of (twice RAM, 256). The
rest of the disk is the main partition "/" which holds all of
everything else.
That's the way the installation program does things, unless you tell
it otherwise. Not necessarily a _Good Thing_.
carl
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