On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:31, Justin Findlay wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:22:03PM -0700, Soren Harward wrote: > > On Mon 09 Feb 2004 at 14:02:06, Hendro Nugroho said: > > > Would anyone suggest me how I have to spend 40G > > > hardisk for installation of RH 9.0 (how many > > > partitions I should make & how big they are)? > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > 10 GB for / > > 30 GB for /home > > OR: > > 64 MB /boot #and turn on 'noauto' in /etc/fstab (see 'man fstab') > 1 GB swap #usually about double your RAM > 8-10 GB / > 1-2 GB /tmp #since it can get quite fragmented, it's good to isolate the > fragmentation to a partion > the rest for /home > > Note: This thread may degenerate into a flame war.
I am glad you pointed out the ommission of swap from the other two suggested partition schemes (one of which was mine). Here is my revised suggestion: 5 GB for / (Amount of RAM * 2) for swap The Rest for /home Keep it simple, I tried more partition once, but was dissappointed when I couldn't resize them without re-formating later... Bryan _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
