Am Die, 2003-06-03 um 14.15 schrieb Doug Wyatt:
> But I'm somewhat confused - mostly by the differences in the
> Start and End values indicated by parted, fdisk and sfdisk.
The output of fdisk and sfdisk don_t differ. The first starts numbering
with 0, the second with 1. Don't know about parted.
Hi,
I've got a box with two drives in it. Hda is dedicated to
Windows and hdb is currently running RH 8.0.
I want to shrink the hdb2 partition to make room for a new
/boot and root to install RH 9.0. I know I need to convert
the ext3 filesys to ext2, shrink it to about 20GB and then
reduce the p
> > >Hiya,
> > >
> > >Here is the breakdown for the general usage of partitions:
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> I guess one could always go with a 500MB /boot, a 1 GB sway, and whatever is
> left over goes to /. The suggestion that separate partitions are need to
> protect from r
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> I guess one could always go with a 500MB /boot, a 1 GB sway, and whatever is
> left over goes to /. The suggestion that separate partitions are need to
> protect from run-away programs, security, and so on may be valid. However,
> guessing the incorrect s
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From: "Shane C Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:55:59 -0500
Subject: Re: disk partition
> That does help give me some direction, thanks.
>
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That does help give me some direction, thanks.
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>Hiya,
>
>Here is the breakdown for the general usage of partitions:
>
>Swap partition should be twice physical ram size. There used to be a
>128MB limit, but that is gone now.
>
>root or / partition holds a
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 18:21, Shane C Branch wrote:
> Are there any 'rules of thumb' to follow when partitioning a disk for linux? In
> the past, I have always partitioned my disk by defining mount points for /,
> /boot, /opt, /var /usr, /usr/local, /tmp and /home separately. I would define
> swap s
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:47:51PM -0500, Shane C Branch wrote:
> I did read the manual on this, but I didn't find it particularly useful, except
> for the recommended sizes for /, and /boot. I was already following the swap
> suggestion. When I first started playing with linux I was told that sett
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On 2/6/2003 at 8:40 PM Ed Wilts wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:21:22PM -0500, Shane C Branch wrote:
>> Are there any 'rules of thumb' to follow when partitioning a disk for
>linux? In
>> the past, I have always partitioned my disk by defining mount p
bruary 06, 2003 9:40 PM
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Subject: Re: disk partition
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:21:22PM -0500, Shane C Branch wrote:
> Are there any 'rules of thumb' to follow when partitioning a disk for
linux? In
> the past, I have always partitioned my disk by defining mount po
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:21:22PM -0500, Shane C Branch wrote:
> Are there any 'rules of thumb' to follow when partitioning a disk for linux? In
> the past, I have always partitioned my disk by defining mount points for /,
> /boot, /opt, /var /usr, /usr/local, /tmp and /home separately. I would de
Are there any 'rules of thumb' to follow when partitioning a disk for linux? In
the past, I have always partitioned my disk by defining mount points for /,
/boot, /opt, /var /usr, /usr/local, /tmp and /home separately. I would define
swap space at 2x physical RAM. However, I always guessed at the s
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