Re: need some advice

["Sylvain Gitta" <sylvain gitta comit ch>]

Hi Raju

The tool you search for is Partition Magic from PowerQuest.
Great program, I've never lost data with it, nor partitions (I knock on
wood).

Of course there are other products, like Partition-It from Quaterdeck.
I've never tried them.

As for the optimal partitioning of your HD, well, that's an endless
discussion.

Analyse your needs.
- Do you need a lot of apps and stuff?
Make sure you have a big system partition
- Do you manage a lot of documents?
Make sure your user partition (/home) is big enough.
- Do you want a web server?
Make a partition for your sites.

Etc. (hey, don't forget the swap :-) )

I would say, three partitions:
  2 Gb for /
  2 Gb for /home
  128 Mb swap
or something like that, depending on your needing more space for
your system or more space for your data.

Voila.

Good luck

Sylvain

"Raju K. V." wrote:
> 
> hi all,
>  
> Out of the 4.2 GB, around 1.5 GB is used by Win98. The problem is backing
> up most of the 1.5 GB is very cumbersome and most of it is required. My
> disk is not partitioned. So is there any way by which I can partition my
> disk without losing data data on the 1.5 GB?
> 
> Also can you suggest an optimal configuration like how much partition for
> linux and how much for win98 etc?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Raju