On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 09:45:55PM -0700, Lief Hendrickson wrote: > At 09:47 AM 6/4/05 -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:44:22AM -0700, Malcolm Swall wrote: > >> Your mileage will vary with Partition Magic. I tried > >> that trick with a not so old version, and ended up > >> clearing all the partions and starting over. At the > >> very least, make sure you have the latest version! > >> > > > >Question: Does this box have anything of value on it? Maybe starting > >fresh is a good option. > > Ans: not really. I could wipe out everything and start over with no big > loss. However, I would like to take the time to learn more about > partitions. Thanks for your comments. >
Exactly! And I would suggest that wiping it and repartitioning is a good step in starting your education on partitions. The RHGSG (Red Hat Getting Started Guide) may be the manual that discussed partitions and their size. If not, try the admin guide. Here is my prejudice. /boot as the first if I'm doing a dual boot. I know I know, Linux doesn't really need this any more, but I feel more comfortable having it physically early. At least 100M. (If I don't do a /boot, I make / my first partition because then /boot will still he high.) Whatever space I want for windoze comes second, all one glob. Then in almost any order; /swap equal to 1X RAM at least, 2X RAM if I can. /home 1G at least /var 500M at least /usr/local 500M is almost always enough. I like it to be separate, but it never gets too big on my box. / as a big glob. 20G at least if I have it Then: I like to set aside a fair hunk for data that doesn't belong to anyone in particular or is shared. IMNSHO /var is *not* appropriate for this (and shame on those who use it for that purpose). This is where the /opt, /opt2, and in my case, /data partitions come in. They're for photos, MP3s, home/business database data, and anything else space intensive that I want to carry forward in a reinstall but can't assign to a particular user. Balancing the size of this partition against the size of / it always a challenge. Don't starve /, that's where /usr is and every new distro will be larger. You can always add another drive as a subdir of /data if you need more space. Others may productively comment on this. There are many ways to partition drives in my father's house ;-) HTH, -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
