> Dale Kosan wrote: > > What would be a good scheme for a 9 gig drive?I have 128 mb of > memory.I want a home partition since it holds all my settings and > would be nice not to have to do upgrades,this way I could do full > installs and not loose all the settings and personal stuff. > > > Thanks in advance.... Please send to the list in plain text--I had to mail this to myself to see what it said. There are usually one to several "good" schemes per expert. All I can tell you is what I would do. /dev/hda1 /boot 10Mb /dev/hda2 swap 250Mb /dev/hda5 / 500Mb /dev/hda6 /usr 2750Mb /dev/hda7 /home 2500Mb /dev/hda8 /spare 500Mb /dev/hda9 /spare1 remainder of disk That way, you have two formatted partitions to do a second install and then you can boot to one to test new ideas or software and boot to the other to do production work. The second system would use /dev/hda8 as / and /dev/hda9 as /usr but /home and /boot would be shared (and of course not formatted during the second install.) civileme
