Ken Foskey wrote:
>I am about to embark on HD recovery (the disk is in the mail literally).
>
>How big would you set the relative sizes? (40 gig, double original)
>
Ken, I recently acquired a 40g to add to my current 20g, and had a play
with it, as there was nothing wrong with the 20g.
I started with 2 x 50m ,1 x 250m as boot partitions, for redhat, Deb,
and w95. The next is a linux extended for the rest of the hd,
then two swap files [1] then the next 10 partitions have, alternately,
rh & deb : /, /home, /var, /usr, /usr/local. The next 4 partitions
contain a second complete installation of debian, and the last partition
is a 3.7g w95 disc for data.
That is a total of 4 OS on 21 partitions
Apart from the boots & swaps , there is only 1 partition under 2g . 40g
is a lot of space.
a lot of fooling about? sure. but I now Know that similar OS can live
side by side, that they can share swap space, that
rh fdisk (for some reason) wants to delete partitions after 16, deb
fdisk is happy to put them there and load an OS into the next 5.
and each linux system can see (use? ? ) the same /home files.( and the
ones in the 20g drive as well)
have a play , Ken. unplug the power from the 20g, so you don't damage
anything you already have, then see what you can do.
>
>With 256 Meg on board what size swaps would you use? how many? I
>currently have about 128 (will recheck this) and I dont think I use it
>that much. Is there a lot of point going bigger?
>
I have 3 x 128m of ram, and have on a number of occasions run the box
to a standstill, with a similar amount of swap file.
So now I run not less than twice the swap to ram. Not had the problem since
>
>
>This is fuzzy for me, I would like to discuss on the list about the need
>for partitions as the Linux Workshop is coming up...
>
>KenF
>
me too, some-one else has certainly played all these games before, with
more knowledge(skill) than me !!!
Bill
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