Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
hi ya hershel
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Hershel Robinson wrote:
> I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are:
>
> Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400
> AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz
have lots of nice fans ... at least 3 chassis fans
2 by the cpu/power pully and add one or tw more fans in the front of
the (midtwoer) case
> My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with Windows 2000.
> I need the Windows system, at least for now, for work purposes. I also may
> want to store images in a shareable location and I presently have 5Gigs of
> digital pictures on this Win 2K machine.
>
> My thoughts are to set up:
>
> 10G Windows 2K system and software
> 10G Shareable data (FAT?)
i'd look at how much windoze disk you're using now
linux can read/write windoze files ( msdos, vfat ) directly
- do NOT use linux to edit/delete ntfs files on windoze
- ie.. if you're using vfat, you wont need the 10G of shared space
- be sure that window is loaded into /dev/hda1
- make a windoze boot floppy .. !!!! it will save your butt one day
make a dos boot floppy too ( for doing "fdisk /mbr" )
> For the rest, however, I am uncertain. The machine has 256M DDR and I have
> 512M more coming so I plan to make a 768M swap partition. Beyond that, the
> web pages I have found discuss mostly minimums for / /usr /tmp and /home. I
> also read that more than 6Gig can create problems for ext2 partitions. So at
> this point, I'm between those minimums and 6Gig. :)
if it was my machine ...
10GB /windows /dev/hda1 - find out how much space you're
using now and double it??
256MB / /dev/hda2 - keep small as possible
256MB /tmp /dev/hda3 - keep small as possible
/dev/hda4 extended partition - not for data
512MB /var /dev/hda5 - keep enough for logs
2048GB /usr /dev/hda6 - keep enough to load new code
512MB <swap> /dev/hda7 - add memory if you need more mem
rest /home /dev/hda8 --- maximum space for you ---
move /var/www to /home/www so that user data is separate from system
/var files
move /usr/local to /home/local to keep user stuff away from system stuff
for various flavors of partition schemes and reasoning
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Partitions
c ya
alvin
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