My example was in a case where you make /boot, / (root), /swap, plus
whatever else like /usr, /home etc. I thought it was a direct answer, I
guess that I left out some parts. How many people actually keep 30
kernels anyway. I had heard 3-5.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>> Ummm, your /boot partition only needs to be 5-15MB and 5 would do fine.
It
>> only holds Lilo and kernels. Kernels are roughly 300Kb and Lilo is
about
>> 150-300Kb. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
>> Brian
>
>That depends on what other partitions you create, simply 5 - 15 meg
>is not enought if you only define one partition as / one as /usr and
>one as /home.
>
>My / is 500mb ;
>/dev/hda1 497667 95702 376263 20% /
>/dev/hda2 1492343 816297 598934 58% /usr
>/dev/hdb1 1492311 488629 926572 35% /usr/src
>/dev/hdb2 1492343 459614 955617 32% /home
>
>Imagen having 15 kernels as i do, rather a lot yes, but some have
>even more, 30 is the limit for lilo, a normal kernel is 400+ doing a
>du -b in mt /boot dir results in 7792640 /boot, tht boot alone.
>
>I would advise something like 300 to 500 meg for / and the rest for
>/usr on a singel user machine, which miine is not.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> >I have a 1.5Gig drive. I had problems making my primary/boot partition
>> >larger than 500MB. I settled for a 500MB primary/boot partition, an
80MB
>> >swap partition. My question is, what should I make the 3rd partition,
a
>> >primary or extended? What directory should be assigned to it? Is my
sawp
>> >partition too big?(I have 32MB of RAM)
>> >
>> >thanks in advance
>--
>Regards Richard
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