[expert] Disk partitioning

I am wondering what advice and/or thoughts people might have regarding disk partitioning for a brand new install. I have just finished assembling the hardware, and have a fully blank and unformatted 45GB disk, and I'd like to plan out my partitions before starting on the install. I was figuring -

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning

Courtesy bcc to Neal also "Neal Lippman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering what advice and/or thoughts people might have regarding disk > partitioning for a brand new install. I have just finished assembling the > hardware, and have a fully blank and unformatted 45GB disk, and I'd l

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning

Rusty Carruth wrote: > > You may want to add another partition for a test '/', for upgrading or > trying things that you have an idea may break you badly... > > lets see. > > /boot - 20 M (way more than you'll ever need, but hey, its a tiny percentage! ;-) > /home - 5Gig (you DON'T want to see

[expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake

If you are installing linux on a clean hard drive, Disk Drake may be okay. If you are installing linux on a system with windows on it, like a lot of people will be, and are trying to create a linux partition out of unused space on the drive, sorry, Mandrake, but someone needs to work on this. I h

[expert] disk partitioning help for new server

Hi, I'm setting up a box to be a webserver with mysql as the backend database and I need a little advise about hot I should partition things. I have 3 drives: 2 - 18 gig SCSIs set up as a level 1 raid 1 - 20 gig ide What are good sizes for the partitions? I want to put everything on the raid a

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake

Are you sure, I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1605 running windows98.. just popped the CD in while already in windows, installation took care of auto-partitioning and setting up LILO for a dual-boot system, worked like a charm. What I found really screws things up is *BSD->Linux,

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake

Thank's for your interesting words on partitioning and formating, I myself use Partition Magic, one of my absolute favorites and one of a few that I'm ready to pay for, it's worth it. ei On Friday 29 December 2000 18:24, pablito wrote: [snip] -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Runni

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Only slightly on topic, but perhaps I'll save someone some headaches... I ran into "issues" installing on a system with a Mylex AccelaRAID 250 (DAC960) controller. The Mylex card only recognizes 7 partitions and DiskDrake insisted in creating some

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake

Just wanted to note something Windows NT and Windows 2000 will allow you to create up to 4 primary partitions on a single drive. This isn't supported by DOS fdisk either, yet no one claims that it needs work. Personally, I think thatdiskdrake is functioning properly. Thanks > If you are inst

RE: [expert] disk partitioning help for new server

AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] disk partitioning help for new server Hi, I'm setting up a box to be a webserver with mysql as the backend database and I need a little advise about hot I should partition things. I have 3 drives: 2 - 18 gig SCSIs set up as a level 1 raid 1 - 20 gig ide

Re: [expert] disk partitioning help for new server

thanks! I was expecting responses like "yes" ;-) Gavin -- >From: "Bill Shirley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [expert] disk partitioning help for new server >Date: Tue, Apr 25, 2000, 4:23 AM > > I just