On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 09:34:53PM +0200, Menno Slaats wrote: > I have a question, how to partition my hard-disk > > I have a 8,4 Gb HD, and want to put Windows 2000 and windows millennium > edition, and corel linux and mandrake linux on it.
With 8,4 GB and four OSs, you're going to be spare for space no matter what. If you are just trialling four OSs, I'd slice it about even four ways, and provide a swap partition for Linux. Better option: scratch Windows, choose a single Linux partition, and grant: ~ 50 MB - 100 MB / ~ 50 MB - 100 MB /tmp ~ 100 MB - 1 GB /var (depends heavily on services provided) ~ 2+ GB /usr ~ 2+ GB /usr/local ~ 3+ GB /home 3 x physical memory as swap. If you decide you really need Windows, pick *a* varient of the broken OS and grant it a 1GB partition. If you want to experiment with a bunch of OSs, try out VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/). My own system is a bit more complex than this, being spread over 3 disks, 2.4 GB IDE, and 2x 2.0 GB SCSI. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 152247 55245 89140 38% / /dev/sdb5 101089 1562 94308 2% /tmp /dev/sdb6 303344 227180 60503 79% /var /dev/hda5 495960 48960 421400 10% /var/spool/news /dev/sda5 1209572 937540 210588 82% /usr /dev/sdb7 1517920 1218656 222156 85% /usr/local /dev/hda8 253775 133932 106741 56% /usr/doc /dev/hda6 249871 135434 101537 57% /usr/src /dev/sda7 585008 374504 180788 67% /home /dev/hda1 157044 119216 37828 76% /mnt/dos /dev/hda2 1007992 597564 359224 62% /mnt/misc1 /dev/fd0 1423 0 1423 0% /mnt/floppy Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 620 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 39 157216+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 40 293 1024128 83 Linux /dev/hda3 294 332 157248 83 Linux /dev/hda4 333 620 1161216 5 Extended /dev/hda5 333 459 512032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 460 523 258016+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 524 555 128992+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 556 620 262048+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 261 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 17 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/sda2 18 261 1959930 5 Extended /dev/sda5 18 170 1228941 83 Linux /dev/sda6 171 187 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/sda7 188 261 594373+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 261 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 17 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb2 18 261 1959930 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 18 30 104391 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 31 69 313236 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 70 261 1542208+ 83 Linux -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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