On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:15:01AM +0800, Chan Chee Seng wrote: > I split them this way.. > > 1GB NTFS(for WinNT) > > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > > 1GB ext2 (Debian Slink) > is this ok?
Depending on your use of NT, the 1 GB might be reduced. Your share partition could very likely be reduced to a few hundred MB, with few ranging from 1-5. 1 GB for Linux is a bit thin. My own allocation is: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 152247 56270 88115 39% / /dev/sdb5 101089 1146 94724 1% /tmp /dev/sdb6 303344 271453 16230 94% /var /dev/sda5 1209572 918124 230004 80% /usr /dev/sdb7 1517920 1218364 222448 85% /usr/local /dev/hda6 249871 127331 109640 54% /usr/src /dev/sda7 585008 263176 292116 47% /home /dev/hda5 495960 89740 380620 19% /var/spool/news /dev/hda8 253775 134564 106109 56% /usr/doc Various things affect how much space you need. In particular, I find that emacs, TeX, and perl consume a lot of space on /usr, and that services such as mail, news, proxy cache, and DEB downloads take up a lot of /var. I would thin down your FAT partition, give yourself something like 1.8 GB for Linux, plus a 128 MB (or roughly 2x physical memory) swap partition. Reasonable default partition sizes, if you choose to split them out seperately: / 40 - 50 MB /tmp 32 - 100 MB /var 100 - 200 MB /usr 1 - 1.5 GB /home remainder -- 100+ MB Ideally you'd add more storage to your system down the road. I'm running an older system with 1x2.4 GB IDE and 2x2.0 GB SCSI. At current costs, 6-20 GB storage is relatively inexpensive. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/