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/boot 10MB at start of drive
/(root) 7.8GB (most of the rest of the drive really)
swap 128MB

Does this have some crazy pitfall? I know under Microsoft you have to think
in terms of partitions, but since there's a flat filing system isn't the
only reason for partitioning the same drive more than once for Linux
increased safety in the event of a crash?

Owing to problems getting NT to recognise my new boot drive (not loading
atapi.sys, I'm not sure what it loads but it doesn't recognise large
drives), I can't crack on with Linux yet, so getting these sort of
installation questions answered now's going to save me some time!

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Tom Snow
email:  Tom brkndrum demon co uk
ICQ:    11341594
'There's no place like /home!'


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richardson, Tony [mailto:ARichard stark cc oh us]
> Sent: 12 February 1999 13:05
> To: 'redhat-install-list redhat com'
> Subject: RE: Partition Sizing
>
>
> The vast majority of the package files will go into /usr (/usr/bin,
> /usr/lib, /usr/man, /usr/X11R6, etc).  (Some configuration files
> will go into /etc, log files into /var, some binaries into /bin and
> /sbin, user files into /home, etc., etc., etc.)
>
> Doing a quick estimate via "du -s /*" tells me that about 75% of the
> space on my system is taken up by files in /usr.
>
> You might be able to drop / down to 30 MB or lower, but then you won't
> be leaving much space for user stuff in /home, so a 50 MB
> value may be a bit
> better. On my system the non-/usr stuff totals up to about 22
> MB (excluding
> /home).
>
> You are definitely going to have select packages and not choose the
> install everything option.  I think that the everything
> option requires
> close to 800 MB of space.
>
> Tony
>
> > From: John Swanson [mailto:j7 attcanada net]
> >
> > I was just installing Linux this evening . . .
> > Could someone please take a moment to help me with my
> partition sizes?
> > I'm using a 540MB(515), I tried this today:
> >
> > /                  100MB
> > /USR          380MB
> > SWAP          32MB
> >
> > BUT, during the package install it said there was no more space.
> > Where do the packages goto?
> > What partitions are really needed?
> > Thanks, John.
> >
>
>
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