On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed the Ebooks instructions for partitioning in Disk Druid so I
> could make a separate partition for /home.
>
> I chose my native partition which was 5GB and deleted it, and tried
> adding two partitions--one 2GB, one 1.5GB (allowing for lots of extra
> room, even) one "native" mounting at / and one "native" mounting at
> /home. But as soon as I add the second partition it tells me it was not
> allocated, not enough room. I figure I must be doing something wrong.
> Any advice?
>
What about swap space? Also, you need to leave a bit of
room for "overhead." Linux reserves a few k of each meg for
"bad spots" which may crop up later and uses that to fix
itself as needed. I'm *guessing* you didn't tell Linux to
make the /home on an "extended" partition, did you???
John
