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Re: Patititioning hard drive



on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:11:45AM -0600, Kent West (westk@acu.edu) wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 03:35 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read
> > all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the
> > only OS on this hard drive. Can somebody who has experience with this size
> > drive tell me if there is major advantage to breaking up the hard drive
> > into smaller partitions. I d, of course, intend to have a swap partition
> > and a boot partition in addition to the main one.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Cheryl
> 
> I don't recall seeing an answer fly by, so I'll take a stab.

Basic agreement with points made.  My own extended comments:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html

Peace.

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