On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am a linux newbie, and I curious if there is a rule of thumb when it > > comes to partitioning the hard drive(using fdisk). I have a desktop with > > 1024 MB of RAM, and an IDE hardrive (80Gb). > > > > How much space would I have to allocate for /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and > > /hda2. I have been reading through the Linux Bible (Wiley Books), and > > while the process seems pretty straight forward, I am stuck as to how I > > can partition my hard disk adequately for optimised performance. How much > > memory should I allocate for each partition? > > > > Thanks, > > Dom L. > > If you are new to Linux, I would suggest that you allow the distro you > are using to partition your drive for you, especially if you are on one > disk. This will give you a good start. Afterwards you can start looking > at customising your disk structure, especially with the addition of new > drives.
Or hardley partition at all, 1 root partition of most of the disk and a swap partion of any 100s of meg. With 1G ram I doubt that swap will ever be used, but Its a good-thing to have some anyway. With luck you'll fiddle, try, learn, redo, and what you do now won't matter. James Oh and urban legand says use as much swap as ram, but that's dumb! With 32M ram 128M - 256M is needed, with 512M ram I hardly every see swap used and with 1G ram (and a busy server, only making DVDs ever used any swap) [tigger] /opt [74]% cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1034560 kB MemFree: 16868 kB Buffers: 74316 kB Cached: 515624 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 735576 kB Inactive: 206584 kB HighTotal: 130752 kB HighFree: 308 kB LowTotal: 903808 kB LowFree: 16560 kB SwapTotal: 530064 kB SwapFree: 530064 kB [tigger] /opt [75]% uptime 8:57am up 62 days 13:06, 7 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
