Doing all those partitions just limits you in the long run. I reccommend just 1 big partition. On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote: > Ahh the art of partitioning. Partition Magic is very good at resizing. If > you want to keep windows around, shrink the partition but keep the windows > partition as the first partition on the drive. From there you can create > up to 3 more primary partitions (for a total of 4 on one hard disk) or > create one extended partition with mutiple drives. Partition Magic will > most likey default to an extended partition, this is fine, and the most > common. > > Now the question is how to devide up that space. (and how much do you > need.) Everything below includes a swap partition. Don't forget the swap > partition. 2xRAM is a general rule of thumb for your swap partition. > > How you partition is a matter of preference and need. I suggest at least > having a seperate / and /home. > > Here are my space guidelines for common mountpoints: > > / - 150mb > |- /boot - 10mb, generally only needed in special cases. > |- /home - Give your self plenty of room for mp3, download, etc. > |- /usr - 2gb minimum, more is better. > |- /usr/local - Depends on what you'll be installing here. > |- /var - 500mb minimum. More and more GNOME stuff is using var. > |- /tmp _ 250mb-500mb. Some applications like filling /tmp (VMWare) > |- /opt - Depends on what you'll be installing here. > > Partitioning a UNIX system is need and personal preference based, so come > up with your own rules based on what you'll be doing and the space > suggestions above. > > | Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 | > | http://www.ringworld.org | Work: 763.428.9119 | > | http://www.itouthouse.com | PCS: 612.306.6055 | > | His power apparently lies in his ability to | > | choose incompetent enemies. | > | - Crow T. Robot, MST3K, "Prince of Space" | > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list