Re: Partitioning hard disk

[Kristian Koehntopp <kris@koehntopp.de>]

On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote:
> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks:
> /                hda1     40MB
> swap       hda2     8MB
> /usr          hda3      68MB
> swap       hdb1      8MB
> /usr          hdb2      250MB

You can split the swap and it is recommended that you do that.
You cannot split the /usr partition that way, though, unless you
use special software (the md driver, which is an advanced topic).

If you are using X, I suggest that you create a bit more swap
(like 16 MB on each disk).

Kristian