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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]