Woo Hoo
A 10 G HDD for LM all its own? And this is a STANDALONE? <Mutters off screen
to ex spouse about toy tolerances>
OK try 127M for Swap, 42M for /boot 2G for /usr 3G for / (since you have
/pub, /opt, and /var folded into it), and give the balance to /home. If ever
you run a server, you have plenty of space in /home for web sites and ftp
sites, etc.
The mileage of others may vary. The trick is to remember that your initial
partitioning cannot be changed without a full backup/clean wipe. On the other
hand, the /home partition and its contents can persist across installations.
(just don't format it when you INSTALL an upgrade). In my experience,
installs are more frequent than upgrades because the designers keep
reorganizing the directiory trees for greater efficiency.
Now don't forget to set a mount point for /dev/hda1 as /dos when you use Disk
Druid. That way, you can use the file manager to pick up files from Windows
(and to send files to it)
Now that I have spoken, watch me go down in flames. Others will have
differing opinions, probably 1 opinion per expert.
Civileme
Richard Salts wrote:
> Anyone:
>
> I am reading in the LM Install Guide (page 23) about creating three
> partitions for classic use:
>
> The swap partition, the (/)root partition, essential, and (/)home partition
> which contain the users' personal directories.
>
> What would be the best or average size of these partitions?
>
> I am planning to put these on a twin 10 GIG hard drive computer with Win98
> in Drive C and Linux-Mandrake on Drive D. The RAM I expect to have would
> be around 256 MB. I understand that the swap partition might be of a size
> at least equal to that of the amount of RAM available. I also read higher
> up in that page (23) that swap partitions cannot be bigger that 128MB.
>
> This is my first install of any Linux distribution and I would like to have
> some idea of what to do when I have to create these partitions.
>
> Suggestions, anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard Salts
