partitioning new installation

Chris Aitken caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 12 23:16:48 UTC 2006


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:07:46PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>Can anyone suggest a partitioning scheme for a new FC4 installation? 
>>Every time I make a bunch of partitions I end up with too much free 
>>space on some and not enough on others (notably /usr and /home).
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>>Master is 20 GB and slave is 6 GB. I think I'll partition the slave as 
>>/backupdrive -- that's worked well for me on another machine - .jpg's, 
>>.ogg's et al.
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>Sounds reasonable.
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>>How about
>>swap 500 MB (I have 256 MB RAM)
>>/boot 256 MB
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>Is your machine ancient enough to need a /boot?
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I wasn't aware that newer machines didn't require /boot...

Chris

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