On Friday 04 Apr 2003 3:45 pm, Arthur Kng wrote: > Hey all, > > First up, thank you everyone for your prompt > help. you've really made it easier for me. > reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which > goes like this: > > ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB > having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my > data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) > > 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and > delete all existing partitions. make a > primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the > Windows OS and which will also have the data > which i want to access from Win and Linux. > > 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' > where i'll load Linux. > > 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, > which will have the linux only data. > > 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at > any given time i run atmost > (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) > etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so > i'm thinking of doing away with the swap > partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if > i'm wrong please do tell me. > > > so in short: > > PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB > /dev/hda1 > > EXTENDED PARTITION > /dev/hda2 > LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB > /dev/hda5 > > LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB > /dev/hda6 > > i know this is a long way to do it but this way i > avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and > the other for my data) and have a substantial space > for the 'Linux only data' partition. > > now i would like to know what you all think about > this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just > starting out on Linux. > You do need a swap partition, but 250MB would be enough. My /home is 6.7GB of which 6 is used, BUT, I have other users, some of which back up their data onto my box in their home partitions AND, more importantly, I use win4lin, so I have a whole windows98 install, associated apps and a fair amount of data all inside my /home. My guess is that at 5.75GB you will have plenty.
Apart from that, everything should be fine. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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