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Re: Best partitionscheme 2 ?



> 
> OK guys (girls maybe too)
> 
> Reading the mails I learned a lot about Debian (I'm just switching from =
> RedHat 5.1due to lack of support for MCA PC's. This RedHat version only =
> runs with a Debian! kernel in DOS completed with LOADLIN. The Debian =
> version however uses the MCA-architecture perfectly!)
> 
> Question:
> What is the best partition scheme if you only have 500Mb to spare and want =
> to develop in C (C++). I'm asking this because after several attempts I do =
> have a running a Debian Linux system but every time I found out that a lot =
> of packages are de-installed again (60-70, reported by dselect and not =
> re-installable again). This de-installation includes 'info' and 'man'-pages=
> , and man-pages will come at hand, now and then.....

The best partition scheme if you are short on space is
1) a swap partition (depends a bit on your main memory, since you're
   short on disk, I'd say 32-64 MB)
2) a '/' partition

That's it.  This offers you the most flexibility to divide your disk
between data and programs.  Personally I only start thinking about more
partions if I have considerably more than 2 GB.

HTH,
Eric

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