Hi all; A situation has developed here in 'Garlic City' that requires me to replace my old Maxtor 13 GB hard drive (primary master) with something slightly larger. As in a 40 GB, or (another) 60 GB. It has to do with a friend's old P200 machine and a little 11 year old that wants a "computer to use like daddy's" but the old one has a dead drive. The specs are such that the BIOS can't be forced to use anything larger than 8 GB. What does that have to do with my 13 GB you ask? I'm swapping it to hisaunt for her 6.4 GB and using that on the P200. Then I'll be able to sucker her into trying Mandrake 8.2. She's been "afeered of that thang!" until now but she can live with the dual boot she'll end up with.
Anyway, back to the question: I'll be re-installing Mandrake on my own box. The partitions as it stands now on the two drives are: my old 13 GB Maxtor : boot (500 MB; probably WAY too much), / (roughly 5 GB), /usr (about 5.5 GB), /var at about 1.5 GB. my new 60 GB: /home 35 GB, /data store 25 GB. I don't like this for some reason. It doesn't seem 'elegant.' Anyone have a suggestion regarding partition layout and sizes? I'll most likely go for another 60 GB Maxtor since there's only about CDN$18 price difference. That's only US$11.33 at the spot exchange right now for my friends south of the border. Thanks for reading, and TIA for any suggestions! -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB., Canada Mandrake 8.2 registered user 244963 12:16pm up 11:12, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00
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