On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:24:15AM -0400, Stephen Kraig wrote: > Hi all, I am finally getting around to setting my main box (a pentium > III currently running windoze 98) as a dual boot machine...I have set > up linux only boxes before, but never a dual boot, and I am wondering > if anyone has a suggestion for the following problem/desire > > My plan for partitioning my 9 Gb hard drive is something as follows > > win98 "root" partition (to hold the windows OS and program files) - 3Gb > Debian root - 1.5 Gb > Swap - .5 Gb (512 M, because I do some intense math stuff...) > > and the rest to be a work partition, which brings me to the question, > files on the work partition should be accessable to both debian and > windoze, and it would be nice if both systems could agree on the > longer filenames....so what type of file system should this partition > contain, and how do I create it?
I strongly recommend seperate partitions for /, /tmp, /var, /usr, and
/home. You may want additional /var partitions for a website or various
/spool and /cache subdirectories. Seperating out /usr/local is also
frequently advisable. Sizes:
/ 50 - 100 MB
<swap> 3x physical RAM
/tmp 32 MB
/var 250 - 500 MB
/usr 1 - 3 GB
/usr/local 1 - 3 GB
/home remainder
...for a typical general-purpose workstation.
Creating seperate partitions has several advantages, suggest you
research to discover what they are.
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