On Saturday 10 July 2004 09:45 am, C Hamel wrote:
On Saturday 10 July 2004 03:16, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
I need to repartition my hard disk, but need input on how to do it and what the different partitions are called in the disk tool in YaST (I still get a little confused about primary, extended and logical partitions). Also I would appreciate comments and suggestions, since this partition and installations needs to run fo a few fears.
It is a 160 GB and I need it for a dual boot machine (Linux and WinXP for a 40 GB iPod). I have something like this in mind:
"Primary partition":
WinXP NTFS 60 GB
"Extended partition" (with the following "logical partitions"):
/boot ext3 50 MB /swap swap 512 MB / ext3 10 GB /home ext3 50 GB
Is that OK? Do I use primary and extended in the right way – and what about the order of the partitions? Any othe comments?
I am considering dividing the Win-partition into two partitions – one for the OS and one for data (maybe in FAT32 format). How would such a partition table look like (would that demand one more primary partition)? Will I have to create the two Win partitions from YaST or from Windows?
Janus
-- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.
I think I'd swap the space between / & /boot, so / has what /boot now has & vice versa. Other than that, seems as if it'd be okay.
Eh?? So you want / to have 50mb and /boot to have 10gb?? That's not going to work.... Perhaps you meant swapping /home and /. I wouldn't give more than 10gb to / (unless you have some *humongous* extra programs you are going to load up, and 2GB *could* be enough to start with on /home unless you have a lot of users or a lot of things (mp3?) you want to keep. But even then, it might be nice to make yet another partition for things like that... pictures, mp3's, etc.... a storage place for files like those. My $.02 And I wouldn't make /boot an ext3 disk but keep it ext2. No need for journaling on the /boot and it complicates things for rescue as well as just booting.
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