Re: partitioning 45 gig HD
What i would do in this and for anyone is Make sure / is the first
partition (Primary) or make a small 30mb partition for /boot at the
beginning of the drive which Lilo will require for the 1024 cylinder
max. As long as the other partitions i would make / maybe 3 to 4 gb
(this is plenty), /usr 5gb to 10gb depennding on what exactly yor doing
(being like me i have Quake3 & Unreal Tourney so i made it kinda big),
/home maybe another 5gb. Whether u r planing to store stuff used on
/data or /home you either make /home larger or make /home a little
smaller (being some files will Dled there temporarily) and make /data
the rest of the disk. NOT forgeting your swap if you really need one.
otherwise depending on your system, processer, RAM, reply with that, i
have a P3 650Mhz w/ 256mb RAM and a 500mb swap that never gets touched.
so for the finals :
/boot - 30mb at the beginning of the drive
/ - 4gb (plenty)
/usr - 5gb, bigger if installing a lot (IE - games, office
utils)
/home - 4gb (bigger if where data is stored)
/data - the rest of the disk (if this is for only global data
then possible 4 to 5gb)
swap - maybe 500mb if you have a system around mine
and as for primary vs. logical, you CAN have 4 primary partitions seeing
that all logical drives begin at hda5 (and i also got this from
partition magic)
and i would probably make /boot and / primary as the rest logical
Sorry for the strung out responce, and hope it helps =]
- overid3
Nick wrote:
> Hello, Does anyone have experience partitioning large Hardrives and
> making Lilo happy? I don't know much about the 1024 cyclinder except
> that you need to install root somewhere before it. How can I tell w/
> my drive? Using a IBM Deskstar ATA/100 45 Gig I wanna
> make://usr/home/data maybe? How do I know when to use primary vs.
> logical?
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