On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Dick Steffens wrote: > Where can I find instructions on partitioning that virtual 8 GB? The > tutorials that I've found all tell me to partition the space for a primary > partition and a swap partition, and assume that I know how to do that. > Does anyone know where to find something that spells out what to call that > virtual drive for fdisk?
Dick, I have a small virtualbox drive on my laptop mounted as /mnt/vm. Perhaps the mount command will tell you the name. For partitioning, I use cfdisk; it's a bit more friendly than plain fdisk. The swap partition (type 83) is generally twice the memory. Given the size of your virtual hard drive that would not be a limiting factor. Even on an installation for learning I'd suggest three partitions: /, swap, and /home. Depending on what you intend to do with the virtual machine I'd divide the non-swap partitions (type 82) equally, 60/40 (either way) or 70/30 (either way). That will give you sufficient room to play, work, and learn the distribution. Happy computing, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
