i cant understand your problem but if you can make one partition as your
name user parition from root group (if you want) home directory and use it
for
>my work partition (c, c++,
> perl, html
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Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Installing windows in a linux box....
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >
> > On 01/07/00 22:59 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >and how do you recommend to utilise the unsused 2 GB in above.
> >
> > Maybe a slightly different partitioning structure, with /root, /boot,
/usr
> > etc in different partitions. That helps when upgrading :)
>
> i would like to know more about that. i am having everything in a single
> 2G partition. as i recently asked about expanding the partition, this
> concept of using two partition sounds better.
>
> how much size of second partition should i take? will 1G suffice?
>
> from my existing running RH6.2 inst which dirs should i copy to this
> second partition? (/root, /boot, /usr as you wrote)
>
> is it recommended to do it in a running installation? need any conf
> files be changed.
>
> i would prefer if my exising 2G partition is my work partition (c, c++,
> perl, html), and the new partition has permanent system files.
>
> regards.
> -vulcan
>
>
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