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 How should I partition my 4GIG Seagate?
In article <D27HqH....@maple.nis.net>,
Lester Paul Vecsey <lvec...@maple.nis.net> wrote:

If I were you I would partition it as such:

     200MB Root partition
     32MB Swap (bigger? doubt it)
     1GB User files
     (remainder) Applications (/usr/local stuff)

You may even want an additional (secondary) root partition.  I believe that
Linux's primary installation would PROBABLY (?) not grow beyond 200MB (it's
currently ~100MB).  By partitioning this way, backup is a breeze, maintenance
is easier, etc.
Unix does not have clusters.  It is a lot more intelligent handling disk
allocation than dos.  Don't worry about it.
-Sean



 Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:58:37 GMT   
 How should I partition my 4GIG Seagate?
In article <D27HqH....@maple.nis.net> lvec...@maple.nis.net (Lester Paul Vecsey) writes:

As I understand it the 1024 cylinder limit is not per partition, it's
absolute but it only applies duirng bootstraping. Keep one partion
entirely in the first 1024 cylinders if you want to boot from the
drive. This partition can be as small as 1MB if you like.

If you like.

If you like.

One advantage of several partitions is that if one gets trashed
there's less to restore from backup. On the other hand if you got the
division wrong you'll end up with loads of symlinks.

AFAIK this is not an issue in Linux.
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