Hi BJ. In my opinion the size of each partition are given acord the use you intent to give and of course the size of youre disk. i.e.
if you have let's say a 80 Gb Hdd. then if youre computer is just for personal usage... the Mandrake Linux Normal instalation will use a partition named "/" wich is the root of the operative system... (don't get confused about the root user, that's another thing). so into this partition can be alocated all the other directories that the system needs like "home", "var", "usr" "tmp". But the main reason to create partitions for this directories is to limit the size of each one to an especific maximun size. .i.e. / = 20 GB /Home = 40 GB (because is the home of each user and have to hold the user's documents like music, imgs, etc.) /swap = recomended 2x RAM Memory, let's say you have a 512 DDRAM dim, so create a 1 GB swap partition. /tmp = 5 GB 's and that's all ... there are no especific size or directive that any of the prior directories must be partitions on youre hard drive, but is easier to mantain in case of dissasters or even back up operations. i.e. If for any reason you have to reinstall youre Linux box and you created separated partitions to hold "/" and "/home" then you just have to format the "/" partition and youre documents will be safe on the other partition and ready to use after youre instalation. Cdrack. --- BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey > wrote: > SNIP > Thanks Hoyt but I'm still a little confused. From > your response you have one > large hard drive ( I think that is what I see ). > > I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and > the other two well not sure. > > My question is: If I go into Mount Points and go > to each hard drive > and choose the partition size and define it what > should they be ? > /var another /home ..... just what I'm not sure. I > have all this > space and it's not showing up usable. > > Do I need a swap file on all three hard drives? > > > Also do I need a swap on all three drives? > > > > > > I have gone thru all my books and the net and > nothing really talks > > > about multiple hard drives. > > > > > > I'm really confused now on what to do. > > > Thanks for all your help in advance, > > > bj > SNIP > Hoyt, > Are you using the DiskDrake tool to do this? The > reason I'm askin is > that /music is not an option neither is /backup. > I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. > Can you call a partition anything you want and > assign it to part 1 thru 12 ? > > I went through this exercise a while ago and got a > lot of suggestions > > from which I developed a scheme. It proved to be > somewhat too generous > > and if I had to do it again I would set things > closer to the used col. > > I am not going to give any advice but will because > I am sending you my > > df. Alter it to your needs: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% > Mounted on > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 > > 2.9G 123M 2.7G 5% / > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 > > 18G 4.7G 12G 28% > /backup > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > > 66M 11M 53M 17% /boot > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 > > 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /home > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 > > 34G 26G 5.9G 82% /music > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 > > 7.7G 406M 7.0G 6% /tmp > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 > > 20G 5.9G 13G 33% /usr > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 > > 9.5G 207M 8.8G 3% /var > > I have installed everything that looked > interesting so in my case > > reseting the part's to used would be sufficient. > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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