--- Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
Isn't there a way to auto-resize it (make the partition flexible for /home or /)? -Hendro > > Bryan > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
