partitioning hd

[Steve Holmes]

I have no intention of spoon feeding exact measures to you; however
big your hard disk is, go for it.  I just gave you what I used given
my needs.  If you don't have or need a msdos or windows partition,  I
don't see why you couldn't end up with say 18 gig or something for
space.  I just don't know what the upper limits might be for creating
an ext2 or ext3 (linux native) partition.  If by chance, it can't
exceed 8gb, then you might need to create several 8gb partitions and
allocate them like what was suggested in a previous message.  I just
don't know that limit for sure.  I just originally suggested a single
linux partition in my case because of the simplicity of my settup.
Actually, I just did a 'df' (display free space) here and I see that I
have 11GB for my root native linux file system and I haven't had any
problems yet.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Jason Symes wrote:
> Ok, thanks. So a root size of say 7 or 8 gb would be fine, then?
> At 05:05 AM 9/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >How ever big you want it:).  I forget how big your drive is but I for
> >example, have a 20 gig hard drive here and I need some additional
> >space for winblows plus my new linux partition so I used cfdisk to
> >allocate 8 meg for winblows, 128 meg (I believe) for swap since I have
> >less memory and let cfdisk give me the rest for linux native.  Now,
> >I've heard various stories about upper physical limits for linux file
> >systems so I don't know if you will run into that as as a problem or
> >not.  In general, I usually allocated the specific amount I knew for
> >swap and just let the rest go to linux.  I always ran individualistic
> >environments here so I never concerned myself with splitting up large
> >partitions.  The thing I want avoid at all cost is having unusable
> >space on the hard drive; that is, I don't wanna end up with space that
> >is not a part of any partition, that space can't be used by anyone!
> >This should make more sense to you when you run cfdisk and see how
> >much free space is actually available after allocating each partition.
> >
> >Good luck.
> >
> >On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:40:27AM -0500, Jason Symes wrote:
> >> Ok, so how big should I make the root partition then?
> >> At 10:59 PM 9/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >If it were me, I would go with a single linux partition and a single
> >> >partitition for swap and let the distribution's setup procedures guide
> >> >you along the path of setting up your basic file systems.  With that
> >> >much memory, I wouldn't think you would need any more than 512 meg of
> >> >swap but that's just my own view.  a whole gig for swap seems awful
> >> >high to me.
> >> 
> >> Jason Symes
> >> kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat
> >> can cause kids
> >> The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the
> >> zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke)
> >> if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything.
> >> If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all!
> >> Just trying to plug away!
> >
> >
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> Jason Symes
> kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat
> can cause kids
> The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the
> zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke)
> if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything.
> If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all!
> Just trying to plug away!


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