> 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
Of course, I know about having to have a swap partition and I'm not having a
problem with that. It's only 128Mb.
I deleted a 5GB partition and tried to make one 2 GB and
one 1.5 GB partition which only totals 3.5GB. That would leave 1.5GB for Linux
to use to reserve space for the bad spots you mention, wouldn't it?
I don't think the Disk Druid (used during Mandrake installation) asked me
whether i wanted the partitions to be extended or primary. It just asks if I
want "native", "swap" "DOS" etc. But then I'm all confused anyway. I know
fdisk (Linux) asks that, but I didn't use that.
;-)
Karen
> 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?
> >
