partitioning problem

[John McGregor]

<I don't know what the /dev/ part is

Everything in linux is treated as a directory or a file. So in the /dev
directory you have /hda which is the first hard drive on the chain.

<How much diskspace should I need to create the /home partition? Is it 
<difficult to do? What is the reconmended amount on creating a home 
<partition?

/home/simon (or whatever your user account is called) is where your data
is going to reside, so if you are going to be doing space intensive
stuff like graphics or ripping / storing mp3s -- you might want to make
it fairly large say, 50 - 60% of the linux partition, otherwise 30 - 40%
of the available space would be more than sufficient.How you allocate
space is really dependent on what you envisage using the for -- desktop?
server? both? etc.

John

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