On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:11 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
> > And now...partioning...I need your HELP.
> > This is what I did so far.
> > 1. Used Vista to 'shrink' two partitions.One the real ntfs part where
> > Vista is installed, the other a Vista recovery partition.
> > 2. Booted the fc6 dvd and am trying to partion it properly, so that
> > Grub (or similar program) prompts with boot options.
> >
> > Here is how anaconda sees the disk (1 disk).
> > MB
> > /dev/sda1 vfat 55 1 7
>
> Rescue partition could be saved.
>
> > /dev/sda2 ntfs 7240 8 930
>
> Seven Gigabytes sounds big enough for Vista. But with the 45 GB
> partition below, why the 7 GB partition? you might draw it to be part of
> the SDA3 partition and draw space off the later parts of the disk. This
> is just a suggestion. I do not want you to mess up your system so
> investigate why you have the two ntfs partitions.
>
> > FREE 3000 930 1313
> > /dev/sda3 ntfs 45703 1313 7139
> > FREE 37349 7139 11901
> > /dev/sda4 Extended 2048 11901 12162
> > /dev/sda5 vfat 2047 11901 12162
>
> If dev SDA2 is not used for the OS, I would reformat dev sda2 to vfat
> and use sda5 for Linux space.
>
> >
> > I need a swap partion, bootloader (in addition to the one there)?, and
> > main / partition.
>
> The bootloader can be installed in the MBR (Master Boot Record). The
> swap partition can be included somewhere within the extended partition
> container. (/dev/sda4, not real partition but information for sda5 and
> greater)
>
> >
> > I tried letting it do everything automatically, but it complained.
>
> It is an outright incompetent program for automatic partitioning. You
> are better off making a /boot partition in the early portion of your
> drive of about 100 MB and a swap partition of about twice memory. For
> home I would use a regular partition and for swap and / I would put
> within an LVM. The LVM is good for stuff that is binary and pretty much
> the same on all systems where blowing it away would not be major. Your
> /home is for data which is different from computer to computer and
> should be on a traditional partition.
>
>
> > Please advise.
>
> Read up on /boot partitions, LVM2 and extended partitions and suggested
> partition sizes.
>
> Regarding VISTA, I like the resizing tool concept as part of the OS, the
> /boot partition they now have and the lower privileges for applications
> instead of admin for everything of helplessness for regular users. I
> hated NT4 through XP, so the reading of those changes is comforting. It
> will be sometime before I would have access to Vista though. I never
> used it yet.
>
> Jim
Hi, Jim,
I use LVM for my home disk. I chose it intentionally because it
will allow me to modify and add space to the directory or even add disks
should that become desirable. As my interests are AI, 3d graphics ,
photos and other graphics, space is the one really big driver for me. I
am therefore quite curious why you don't recommend LVM for /home?
Regards,
Les H
