-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Boy Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:48 PM To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' Subject: Re: drive partition on install >The 'recommended' layout will vary depending on the personal taste and >experiences of the person you are asking :-) >In general it is a good idea for a Linux box not to do a fine grained >splitting of the disk space in order to avoid problems with space on a >specific partition. >In general it is a good idea, too, to have a separate partition for >/home which makes an update of the system a lot easier and less painful. >In order to avoid the hassle of a wrong guess of the needed space for a >file system you should consider to use LVM for most of the disk space. >It is very easy to adjust disk space in a LVM volume. >I've choosen a layout of my 40 mb disk as follows (after a lot of >experiments): >hda1 70mb /boot >hda2 1gb swap (I intend to upgrade my memory) >hda3 6gb for testing and various purposes, you may omit this >hda4 33gb LVM volume vol00 >In vol00 >/fc2 6 gb for the main system >/home 15 gb >/test 6 gb for testing purpose >rest is unallocated >in hda3 I can install Fedora test releases or other Linux distributions >completely separated from my working system (booting via grub >chainloader). So I can test things without the risk of harm for my >valuable data. >6 gb are sufficient for a fedora system in most cases. If a need more, I >can easily expand the root file system by allocating part of the >unallocated space. It's very easy with LVM. >/test I can use to try other distros or I rename it e.g. to fc3 (when it >is released) and install the new release, check if everything works, >fine tune the installation and switch to the new release smoothly (and >without risk to the data in (/home) /fc2 would become to the new /test >in this case. >Peter Peter~ Thanks for the reply. That looks as though it would be very workable. I may repart the drive like this just to see how it works out. Regards, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
