On 03/07/10 09:57, shashank kumar wrote: > Hey > I am a newbie too ... correct me if I am wrong.. > > > > >> I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the >> host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5). >> Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs. > > If you are NOT using this partition for any other work, go ahead and > make it your LFS partition. > Although you wont be needing 50GB of space for lfs... its just waste > of space, its advisable to make a smaller partition of 2-3GB as > mentioned in section 2.2 of book.
2-3GB may be a little small, depending on how much you want to install in BLFS. I would suggest 5GB > two things... > 1. if a partition is already mounted you cant mount it again unless it > is first unmounted. That's not true, root can mount the same partition in more than one place. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
