Am Die, 2003-08-26 um 04.22 schrieb Scot Huntsberry: > suggestions oh how to best partition a 50gb hard drive to maximize the > efficiency of the system. That's a lot of space :) I've created my partitions as follows: 50 mb primary for /boot, 1 gb primary partition for swap the rest primary as a logical Volume Within that volume: 4 gb for / 20 gb for /home and several additional file systems for special purposes (e.g. a separate file system for mysql in my case). I can easily resize partition as needed, can temporarily add a partition for testing purposes (e.g. beta severn) Peter