Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20001113143801.00fa8f80@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:38:01 +0000
From: Samy Elashmawy
My proposed mount points would be:
1) /boot (including boot.b and vmlinuz) below 1024. Being generous, say 15 Megs. Probably less is fine too.
8 to 10 meg is plenbty , but on todays large drives , each cylender is 4 -8 meg , so just give it two so it wont hick up on reboot. one cylender will freak it out on reboot , two or more is the way to go.
2) / (= /everything_else, any way you want it covering all the rest
of the available
space.) In one or more partitions, as convenient --so long as the kernel and the chained bootloader are in a little partition entirely within 1024, the arrangement of all the rest is optional.
Cheers,
--Kevin
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:43:04 +0000, paulm@waitrose.com wrote:
I'm just in the process of installing SuSE 6.4 on one of my machines. This machine already has two other operating systems (Win95 and OS/2). I have a reasonable amount of disk space for SuSE (around 8 GB), but the available disk space within the first 1024 cylinders is limited (less than 2 GB). As a result, I wanted to partition the drive to leave a relatively small partition below the 1024 limit, and split the rest of the system onto partitions further up on the disk.
Can someone suggest a set of suitable mount points? I tried using one partition set as /, and another set as /usr, but this isn't a wonderful split - I've ended up with less than 100 mb on the / partition, but close to 1.6 gb on the /usr partition.
What I'm not sure of is whether I should make more than 2 partitions, or whether there is a better split than the one I've tried. Any suggestions welcome...
paul.
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