Re: Possible - Recommended 20 GB partition recommendation

[Samuel Díaz García <samueldg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think that, I have a 40Gb harddisk and I have:
   1) 10GB (NTFS) For XP
   2) 30GB - Extended partition
   3) 100MB ext3 /boot partition
   4) 1GB for shared memory
   5) The rest in ext3 / partition.

I have GRUB in MBR and I have no problem.

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   Samuel Díaz García
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Gerald Thompson wrote:
> Rajev Mhasawade wrote:
>
> > Hi Gerold,
> > Thanks for ur support.I am relieved!
> > Yes,i am gonna install fc3.But i plan to give 6 gb to / directory and
> > make more partitions of the remaining place.
> > Hey,we dont need ourselves to generate /boot patition?Thats nice!I was
> > quite unsure about what the hell is this and how much space shud i
> > leave for it.
> > BTW where are the linux system files saved?like in win its c:\windows
> > In /boot or / directory?
> > Thanks again,
> > Rajev
> >
> >  
> Hi again Rajev;
> I am posting this to the fedora-list also, there are some people on the 
> list who can give you better recommendations about this.
>
> I think you might have the wrong idea about how to do this configuration.
>
> Actually I forgot about the /boot partition, needs to be within the 1024 
> cylinder barrier.  That was why I had to use partition magic.
> Your first e-mail showed this
>
> > C:(primary)XP loaded-9 gb
> > D: 9gb
> > E: 27gb
> > F:27gb
> - you said you were going to delete E:, recreate a 7 GB E:, and leave 
> the remaining 20 GB for linux
> - You need to create a small 50 to 100 MB partition at the beginning of 
> your drive for /boot, you can try it without, it depends on your 
> computer, older computers can't get past the 1024 cylinder barrier.  If 
> you have newer hardware then grub may be able to boot up from the MBR 
> without having /boot under the 1024 barrier.
> - so if the install fails because /boot is unreadable because of the 
> 1024 barrier, you will need to do the stuff I posted at the BOTTOM of 
> this e-mail.
>
> If you are truly going to break up your partitions please remember these 
> things:
> /usr needs about 6 GB minimum
>
> How I would break up 20 GB
> - /boot - 50 MB - this is for grub files
>
> - swap - 1 GB - 2 times your RAM is usually all you need.  512 MB RAM x 
> 2 = approx 1 GB
>
> - /tmp - 500 MB - this is for temp files, it is good to make it separate 
> from root so that it doesn't overwhelm the root partition if it starts 
> getting too big.
>
> - /var - 1 GB - this needs to be bigger if you were going to do a 
> server, for a new user you could get away with 500 MB, but I recommend 
> doing the full 1 GB for var, when you use yum it places all its
> downloads in var, that is why it is probably better to give it a 
> reasonable amount of space.
>
> - / - 2 GB - you can get away with 1 GB or less, but until you really 
> know the filesystem layout its probably safer to give root 2 GB, if you 
> decide to break off /opt, then give / 1GB and /opt 1 GB, you don't 
> really need to though, you won't be using /opt very often as a new user, 
> /opt is where you install tarballs.
>
> - /usr - 10 GB - usr is where all your software goes, don't bother 
> making a separate /usr/local, you don't have enough space to mess 
> around, keept all /usr stuff on the same partition
> - /home - at this point you should have 5.450 GB available for home, if 
> you plan to install a lot of software you can probably take some from 
> /home and give it to /usr, please remember though /home is where you 
> store all your files, so don't make it too small.
>
>
> ***********YOU ONLY NEED TO DO THIS IF FEDORA WON'T BOOT UP BECAUSE OF 
> THE 1024 BARRIER***********
> - if GRUB isn't working, using a Windows 98 or ME rescue disk, fdisk 
> /mbr, you should be able to get back into Windows XP after that.
> - get a hold of partition magic 6 or later rescue disks (you said all 
> your drives are fat, so PM6 rescue disks will work fine).
> - delete your E: drive
> - move your D and C drives up 50 to 100 MB, or just resize C: 100 MB less
> - create an 50 to 100 MB EXT2 at the beginning of the drive (EXT3 if you 
> have that option).
> - if you use partition magic to recreate the E: drive, I would put it at 
> the end of the free space
> - this would look like this:
> - hda1 - EXT3 - 50 or 100 MB - /boot
> - hda2 - fat32 - 9GB - C: - leave this set as the active partion
> - hda4 - extended
> - hda5 - fat 32 - 9GB - D:
> - 20 GB free space
> - hda6 - fat 32 - 7GB - E:
> - hda7 - fat 32 - 27GB - F:
> - make sure you can still boot up into windows before try to install Fedora
> ***********YOU ONLY NEED TO DO THIS IF FEDORA WON'T BOOT UP BECAUSE OF 
> THE 1024 BARRIER***********
>
> Sincerely,
> Gerald