Re: hard drive partitioning questions

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>]

Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system
> (i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap
> partition.  cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions
> i should specify.  i'm reading the the woody installation how-tos [1],
> and am kind of confused.  
>
> i just bought a new 80G hard drive.  i should partition the whole
> thing, right?  i'm thinking:
>
> /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?)
> /dev/hda2 -- /usr (83) -- 1G (too much?)
> /dev/hda3 -- swap (82) -- 128M (i have that much physical RAM, and
>              that should be sufficient, right?) should i make this
>              hda1?
> /dev/hda3 -- /var -- 2 or 3 G, as per suggestion of [1] (i like apt)
> /dev/hda4 -- /tmp -- 50M-ish?
> /dev/hda5 -- /home -- the rest, all for me :)

Am i missing something here?? How can u have that may primary 
partitions? I always thought that u have to have at least one extended 
partition in order to have partitions beyond 4. Maybe Linux overcomes 
this limitation but u will definitely have problems sharing the disk 
with other O/S.

Anyway, it's really a matter of taste. I usually use something like:

hda1: 
type 6	~500MB 	for Boot
hda2: 
extended 
rest of disk
hda5: 
type 83	2..4GB	for complete Linux except /boot
hda6: 
type 82	2xMEM	for swap
hda7: 
type 83	~4G	for /home (important stuff that needs backup)
hda8: 
type 83	(big)	for /data (multimedia stuff, downloads...)
hda9: 
spare for other O/S ?

That's just my EUR 0.02


Heinrich