Sridhar Dhanapalan's message on April 11, 2002 10:17 pm, stated: 13GB is probably a bit over the top for 'system' (non-user data) purposes. If you like, you can probably make another 'data' partition on the 13GB drive, taking some space from the other partitions. 500MB is way too big for /boot; 50MB is probably more than you'll ever need. I would probably give 1GB to /var, 5GB to /usr, 1GB to /tmp, 1GB to / (unless you plan on installing many things to /opt, in which case you should allocate more), and the rest to 'data'. Of course, it all depends on how you use your system.
You may also want to look into LVM. LVM can treat both drives as one unit, and it allows you to change partition sizes non-destructively. Diskdrake can handle LVM creation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LVM? Is that a "virtual machine?" Sort of software RAID without fake RAID on "hardware" like the cards that are too expensive? <grin> I'll go Google-ing and read what I can find about that. So for the two 60 GB hard drives (the one already in the box and the one that I'm picking up today) I only really need about 8 GB? Fine; but what the _h_e_ double hockey sticks do I do with the other 112 GB? ;-) Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be doing a lot of reading before I re-install the system I do believe. C. -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB., Canada Mandrake 8.2 registered user 244963 11:57pm up 2:01, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.23, 0.19
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