RE: Recommended Partitioning
I have Win2K and Debian at home, (excuse: my day job is developing in MS
env. Yuch)
For my MS stuff I keep a 1.5G for system and programs, 250M for swap and a
1G FAT32 for files - NTFS is notoriously incompatible so I prefer FAT32 for
personal stuff. Speed is only really an issue with loading apps anyhow. I
also kept the Win98 that came in the box, and use Partition Magic and Boot
Magic with that. Guests can use Win98 for surfing, stops them breaking
anything. I have BootMagic pointing to my / Debian which is also where LILO
is loaded, ie not on the MBR.
HDA
MBR: BootMagic
Win98 (contains boot menu for 98 and 2000) 1G
/ 250MB
Linux swap 128M (should be 256 really I think)
Win2K 1.5G
Win2Kswap 250M
HDB
/usr 2G
/home 4G
userFAT32 1G
and some system backups.
Loads of space left over, (HDB=20G) and is quite flexible, if I want to try
a new dist I keep the MBR and /home and everything works OK.
Tim Anderson
> Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific
> partitioning scheme?
>
> Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128
for /swap,
> and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other
partitions like
> /boot, /user, and /home. What do you guys recommend ?
>
> Also, im dual booting next to win2k(dont flame my, I have to do 3d
> rendering), will I need to make a special boot partition for LILO?
I've
> heard something about /mbr which I dont understand.
>
> Will someone clarify this stuff for me? Thanks!
>
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