drive partition on install

[John Dangler]

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From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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





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