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- From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Partitioning a new HD for Linux/DOS
- Keywords: partition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.161926.15634@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:19:26 GMT
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- Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ
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- Im getting a new Western Digital IDE drive for my 386/20. I have decided that
- I want to partition the 210Mb in a more-or-less traditional form (with the
- exception of DOS).
- I want to create a bootable DOS partition of about 25-35 Mb for stuff my wife
- won't let go of. The rest of the disk is open for Linux.
- I want to put root in it's own partition so that I won't screw it up if I goof
- somthing up in one of my programs. I assume that this will be just bigenough
- to hold the kernel and some root level stuff like /lib and /etc... Is this
- correct? Does anyone know just how big this should be for 0.98pl3?
- I wanted to set my /swap (b partition) to at least 2x my memory size of 4mb.
- This would be 8mb but I might go larger because I develope image processing
- software with large image data and I also play around with large multi-
- precision math packages to play around with large prime numbers and such. I
- plan on having several background jobs running at all times in addition to the
- image processing software.
- I was told that partiton c is the entire disk. Is there any problems with
- overlapping partitions?
- /tmp will be small I guess and /usr will be where the user accounts and space
- goes, right???
- My question is: How large should / be? How about /tmp? I know about /swap and
- /usr will be all that's left over from the rest. But / and /tmp I don't know
- how to size these. Any help would be appreciated.
- Thanks
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