What i would do in this and for anyone is Make sure / is the first partition (Primary) or make a small 30mb partition for /boot at the beginning of the drive which Lilo will require for the 1024 cylinder max. As long as the other partitions i would make / maybe 3 to 4 gb (this is plenty), /usr 5gb to 10gb depennding on what exactly yor doing (being like me i have Quake3 & Unreal Tourney so i made it kinda big), /home maybe another 5gb. Whether u r planing to store stuff used on /data or /home you either make /home larger or make /home a little smaller (being some files will Dled there temporarily) and make /data the rest of the disk. NOT forgeting your swap if you really need one. otherwise depending on your system, processer, RAM, reply with that, i have a P3 650Mhz w/ 256mb RAM and a 500mb swap that never gets touched. so for the finals :
/boot - 30mb at the beginning of the drive / - 4gb (plenty) /usr - 5gb, bigger if installing a lot (IE - games, office utils) /home - 4gb (bigger if where data is stored) /data - the rest of the disk (if this is for only global data then possible 4 to 5gb) swap - maybe 500mb if you have a system around mine and as for primary vs. logical, you CAN have 4 primary partitions seeing that all logical drives begin at hda5 (and i also got this from partition magic) and i would probably make /boot and / primary as the rest logical Sorry for the strung out responce, and hope it helps =] - overid3 Nick wrote: > Hello, Does anyone have experience partitioning large Hardrives and > making Lilo happy? I don't know much about the 1024 cyclinder except > that you need to install root somewhere before it. How can I tell w/ > my drive? Using a IBM Deskstar ATA/100 45 Gig I wanna > make://usr/home/data maybe? How do I know when to use primary vs. > logical?
