Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:35:11 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 January 2002 02:17, you wrote: On Sat, 17 November 2001, Franki wrote: I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. as I hear, it might have some issues with nfs too. so no reiser for the server partitions where postfix or nfs might write. I hear it aint't to good for the /boot partition either, durn! and i switched my boot partition into reiserFS. just read the magic page at mandrakesecure and i think i will encounter trouble when updating the kernel. *should have stuck with ext3, sheesh* ;-) -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
tester wrote: Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: snip durn! and i switched my boot partition into reiserFS. just read the magic page at mandrakesecure and i think i will encounter trouble when updating the kernel. *should have stuck with ext3, sheesh* ;-) Well you do have XFS and JFS available as well. JFS might be slightly questionable on 8.1 but should be good from that point on, and it is fast, though somewhat more wasteful of space and sometimes requirinng defragging. XFS is primo material, in the same order of magnitusde for speed and storage use with ext2 and reiserfs, and good to postfix, nfs and samba including the ACLs you have for NT servers. It is quite rapid for most operations except massive file deletions, where it is very slow. The other functions make up for that one deficiency rather well. ext3 has as its advantage that you can shift from it to ext2 and back on the fly. Its major disadvantage is that the benchmarks I did, emulating everyday activity and mailserver activity suggest it is a pig on speed, running at about 2/3 ext2. Of course if you make your /boot partition anything other than ext2, you may have some difficulties keeping several linices on the same machine and multi-booting. Naturally, initrds are very important in mounting /. Civileme and now he tells me... ;-) well i thought i made a sound decision to convert my boot partition to reiserfs (i was just trying journalling file systems and my knowledge about them was next to nil) because i heard that reiserfs has problems with some servers. well it was a good exercise on my part and maybe ill hold on upgrading to the new kernel and wait for 8.2 and put my boot partition back to ext2 or maybe ext3 if it is that easy to switch back on to ext2. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Saturday 05 January 2002 02:17, you wrote: On Sat, 17 November 2001, Franki wrote: I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. as I hear, it might have some issues with nfs too. so no reiser for the server partitions where postfix or nfs might write. I hear it aint't to good for the /boot partition either, ext3 is abit slower then reiserfs for small files, but the difference is not that noticable. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2001 3:50 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror stories). --- = === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 = === Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Franki wrote: I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. ext3 is abit slower then reiserfs for small files, but the difference is not that noticable. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2001 3:50 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror stories). --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
alrighty... what flavor of linux are you running? i know that it does like the swap, root, and home though. im running mandrake 8.1 and its pretty cool like that with the graphical install... it has autoalicate. :) - Original Message - From: sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? you can do autoalicate... usually it will sk for a swap and root (/) and home - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. Hugo, As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically need one, you _should_ have one anyway. Miark -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
yup... thats right! - Original Message - From: sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? alrighty... what flavor of linux are you running? i know that it does like the swap, root, and home though. im running mandrake 8.1 and its pretty cool like that with the graphical install... it has autoalicate. :) - Original Message - From: sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? you can do autoalicate... usually it will sk for a swap and root (/) and home - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. Hugo, As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically need one, you _should_ have one anyway. Miark -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Miark, You have confirmed what others have said. I will set a swap file and leave the rest as /. Thanx. Hugo - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. Hugo, As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically need one, you _should_ have one anyway. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
you can do autoalicate... usually it will sk for a swap and root (/) and home - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. Hugo, As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically need one, you _should_ have one anyway. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Hi, Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. TIA. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. That's fine. Is Root where the actual OS is installed... The System Files, etc.? No, there are only directories in the root directory, and /root is basically the home directory of the root user. The OS, well, let's say the kernel, is located in /boot, and the rest of the configuration files, libraries, etc. are scattered in various other places. Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? Typically, no. Home is just for personal data (letters, spreadsheets, etc.) and configuration files (KDE, Gnome, X apps, etc.). You could run smaller apps from your home directory. I, for instance, run the AudioGalaxy client from my home directory. But as a rule, apps go somewhere under /usr. With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? With a 2GB drive, I think Tom Brinkman's strategy is the best. Just make a swap partition (130MB is fine), and make the rest a single partition mounted at /. You'll save yourself a lot of space headaches. DiskDrake will do it. Don't both with PM. I've used version 7 (the latest), and it's caused great headaches for me. Plus, PM doesn't make ReiserFS partitions, which you'll probably want to use instead of Ext2. Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. No apology necessary. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. Hugo, As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically need one, you _should_ have one anyway. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. ext3 is abit slower then reiserfs for small files, but the difference is not that noticable. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2001 3:50 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror stories). --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is That's a good choice. Root (the / partition itself) contains directories and files needed by the system. At minimum, it needs to have enough room to store files and directories which can't be (or is unwise to be) stored in other partitions. These would include directories such as /etc, /sbin, /bin, and so forth. You could have a small / partition (on the order of 64-128 megs or so; I've done it with as little as 32 megs in / in older releases) provided of course you have a partition (or partitions) for the bulk of the system - most programs are stored underneath /usr, which could be mounted on another partition. Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 Not as such. You could install programs in your home directory, but most programs you install will go in either /usr or /usr/local. Think of /usr (loosely) as the Program Files area and /home as the My Documents area. It's not a completely valid analogy, as some programs are located in other places, and other files (like documents) are stored elsewhere too. MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? Diskdrake should do fine, no need for PM. As others suggest, you'll probably do best for the time being with a single partition for / (and everything else) and a separate partitino for swap. One really needs some experience to figure out good settings for other partitions on a multi-partition setup and you don't want to run out of space because you underestimated your space needs. And, if you run out of space, you can always get a bigger secondary disk, and move larger directories out of the first disk and into partitions on the second disk. Nick David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Thats actually called Swap Data (presumably a number of data partitions) Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap home... My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. Good luck! peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. On Friday 16 November 2001 4:54 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Thats actually called Swap Data (presumably a number of data partitions) Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap home... My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. Good luck! peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Hello antoine rivoire, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have to use Partition Magic, or is this DiskDrake capable of doing for me via manual means? -- Nick -=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
You meant swap rather than root, right Nick? Miark - Original Message - From: Nick Andriash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? Hello antoine rivoire, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have to use Partition Magic, or is this DiskDrake capable of doing for me via manual means? -- Nick -=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Data (presumably a number of data partitions) My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? You can partition yourself during an expert install or mandrake will partition automatically for a standard install. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: Hello antoine rivoire, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have to use Partition Magic, or is this DiskDrake capable of doing for me via manual means? I'd suggest making a /(/ is the mount point for root) swap and /home with such little drive space. You'll want maybe a gig or so for root and pick the packages you want to install wisely and the size of home depends on what you want to do with the box. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Hello Miark, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote: You meant swap rather than root, right Nick? Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley said to make my Root 1 GB which seems rather large if my entire Drive is only 2.1 GB. Besides, Win 98 itself only occupies 350 MB. Is Mandrake 8.1 that much larger? Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. -- Nick -=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: Hello Miark, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote: You meant swap rather than root, right Nick? Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley said to make my Root 1 GB which seems rather large if my entire Drive is only 2.1 GB. Besides, Win 98 itself only occupies 350 MB. Is Mandrake 8.1 that much larger? Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. The Root partition is where the apps will be installed, in the /usr tree so you'll need quite a bit of space there. Most Mandrake installs are over a gig but doesn't need to be. You can select a bare minimum of packages if you want. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. That's fine. Is Root where the actual OS is installed... The System Files, etc.? No, there are only directories in the root directory, and /root is basically the home directory of the root user. The OS, well, let's say the kernel, is located in /boot, and the rest of the configuration files, libraries, etc. are scattered in various other places. Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? Typically, no. Home is just for personal data (letters, spreadsheets, etc.) and configuration files (KDE, Gnome, X apps, etc.). You could run smaller apps from your home directory. I, for instance, run the AudioGalaxy client from my home directory. But as a rule, apps go somewhere under /usr. With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? With a 2GB drive, I think Tom Brinkman's strategy is the best. Just make a swap partition (130MB is fine), and make the rest a single partition mounted at /. You'll save yourself a lot of space headaches. DiskDrake will do it. Don't both with PM. I've used version 7 (the latest), and it's caused great headaches for me. Plus, PM doesn't make ReiserFS partitions, which you'll probably want to use instead of Ext2. Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. No apology necessary. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror stories). --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Friday 16 November 2001 5:24 pm, you wrote: i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. by two partition i meant swap and /. i ran in this problem recently. i had a root, swap and home on a small hd(2gig). icant remember how much space i allocated to / and /home, but swap was about 130mb. anyway, after a while i just found myself no more romm on / .. what to do then? well i reinstalled with just swap and / ... you cant afford more free space than you need in one partition, because it is likely that you will need it in the other one. that's my point really. however, if you use ext2, you can apparently resize partitions with parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ On Friday 16 November 2001 4:54 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Thats actually called Swap Data (presumably a number of data partitions) Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap home... My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. Good luck! peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
