Re: Partitioning questions.
In article <[🔎] 9806170850.AA12412@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr> you wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit prelude.]
: How should I do the partition ? i've "read" the Partition
: mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have:
:
: '/' <- a root partition,
: '/swap' <- a swap partition (32Mo).
:
: -1- To achieve what I want to do, I'll have to make a '/home'
: partition. Correct ?
Do you have any means to backup? No? Then that's a good idea.
: -2- my friend an I have a 3Go and 4Go HDs resp. How many
: space should I give to the root partition (M$ mu$hroom will also
: be present: ~400Mo) ? That's the bootable partition and therefore, it
: will contains all the system file. True ?
Yes and no. If you're only planning to have / and /home, then
yes. Personally I have a small root (for less corruption likelyhood
when the system crashes or the power goes (no crash yet, which wasn't
self-inflicted, for two years)), and then mount /home /usr and /var,
which are bigger. In this case, the answer is no. / is 64MB (not
anywhere near full), /home 500MB (always full - hehe - the usual
problem), /usr 500MB (a little cramped, next time I'll let it be
700MB) and /var 120MB (plenty of room, but if you expect a lot of
mail/news traffic perhaps bigger is necessary).
: -3- Once I've my Debian CDs, how to overwrite the RH files ?
Just let the installation re-initialise your partitions (not /home of
course).
Cocteau Twins, Blue Bell Knoll,
MartinS
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