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smokey:
This time I have it all figured out except I have a few questions:
1) How should I partition my 80gig entirely for linux.
2) What Filesystem should I use?
btw. Im using Mandrake 9.0
btw2. I downgraded my gfx card to a GeForce3 Ti200 especially for use with *nix.
Master of Reality:
you want to partition 80 GB for just one distro?
you'll probly want to use the standard Ext3 or ReiserFS, i am using both and i dont see much difference in them.
choasforages:
A, stick the radeon back in there, ATI now supports "powered by ati" card along with the "built by ati" cards
B, i would recomend either rieserfs, or xfs. both are journald file systems in my usage, beat ext2, and ext3, well xfs is the quickest for a desktop machine so go with it.
as for the partitions, give your self 100mb of
for /boot
5 gigs for /
and 15 gigs for /usr
and the old rule of thumb, a swap partition that twice the size of the amount of ram in the machine
and the rest on either /home or make a partion called /stuff and chmod it 1777 then dump mp3's iso's games' and other stuff in there, or atleast thats how i do it. i think voidmain or calum or somebody has a picture that detials it out
Master of Reality:
dont put 100mb for boot unless your planning to have lot of other kernels there for soem werid reason. You barely need 10mb for boot, but i recommend 20mb
caveman_piet:
For interest sake - the /boot on my laptop
is 16MB and I can barely fit two different
systems on there. To have a backup kernel
during an upgrade is all that fits.
A new kernel upgrade forces me to delete the
previous (old) and stable kernel to make space.
(Running RH 7.3 - now on 2.4.28-18.7.x and
17.7x as backup)
I'm allways in a panic when I have do that.
I found that with the newer kernels (and a big
drive - to use a little extra will not hurt).
I any case - on an 80GB drive - how much is
one cylinder in MBytes anyways?
Just my one cents worth (if that
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