On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:54, Ben Steeves wrote: > On 6/18/05, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 11:11 -0700, Ravinder Siriseni wrote: > > > Hai all !!!!!!!!! I worked on the Linux. I have used the redhat series > > > and now i want to shift to the fedora core series ........Though i > > > know that i am very late in working in the New versions of > > > fedora ....... can any one plzz help me out the best way that i can > > > partition the disk of 160 GB on fedora core 3 . > > > > ---- > > The installer will do that for you > > I think he might have been asking for "best practices" in > partitioning, not the actual mechanics. I would recommend putting the > /home directory on a separate partition, just to make future > upgrades/installations less painful. > > Depending on what you install, your / partition could be as small as a > couple of gigs, but since you have a big drive, I'd recommend going > with about 20GB for / -- more if you're planning on running a database > or something (and if you are, you might want to put /var in a separate > partition too). Once you've determined that, use the rest of the > space for /home -- it's probably where most of your data will go. > > Of course, these are just recommendations. Everyone has their own > personal partitioning scheme. > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves Another thing to consider is a partition for saving downloads and critical files in the event that you have to re-install or re-partition. This also helps if a yum (or apt) upgrade changes configuration files in /etc since I store a copy of /etc under /source/etc. Obviously, if you need/want to reinstall, these partitions should NOT be formatted. Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,707 and counting
