On Monday 07 January 2002 17:51, Joel Hammer wrote: > Can someone point me to an up to date discussion on how to partition > a disk this size? I want to use this disk as my primary drive (newer, > faster, bigger) and I need some information on partitioning it. I > use LILO. > > Thanks, > Joel > > > I just bought a big drive. I was surprised to see they say I should > > install an Ultra/133 PCI adaptor card. The drive is 80 megs 7200 rpm. >
I presume you mean an 80GB dirve, which is indeed large. I've experimented with various partitionings, but I always come back to a single partition per distro or a separate /home partition as second choice Unless you plan to download tons of MP3/OGG files, movie clips, iso images, etc. ... I never manage to get more than about 5GB used (with both KDE and gnome and OpenOffice, and a few iso images downloaded). So, I would carve the drive up into 10-15GB chunks max (I use 6.4GB max at present). Tell us more about your plans for the drive - multiple distros, big databases, music library, ??? My usual distro is ELX -pre1, but I put up FreeBSD for fun. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - FreeBSD 4.4 with KDE _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
