Choosing an approach to Fedora upgrades.
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Sep 28 00:21:10 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:45, Peter McDermott wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've been reading the thread and thinking about how to partition my hard
> drive. Could you tell me if this is feasible (or if it even makes any
> sense):
>
> 80 gig hd
> - hd0 ntfs 30 gig - winxp (I know but I'm a newbie
> with linux)
> - hd1 ext3 10 gig - /home (to be shared between
> installed linux distros)
> - hd2 ext3 20 gig - / , fedora core 2
> - hd3 ext3 20 gig - / . fedora core 3 test 2
>
> I don't know about the size distrabution... should /home get 30 gig and
> hd2/3 get 10 gig each?
>
If you are downloading a lot of stuff then home should be larger.
You also need a swap partition
I probably would do 20gb winxp, 1gb swap (large excess in most
situations), 30gb home, and split the rest for the 2 linux partitions.
Note that some say Linux does not like /boot to be in an extended
partition so you may want to create 2 /boot partitions as primary
partitions and put all the rest of the linux stuff in extended
partitions.
On the disk that would be
XP
/boot (FC2)
/boot (FC3)
extended
/home
swap
FC2
FC3
or something similar.
> Thanks
>
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