On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:04:30PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Given linux is all that's on a 20gig drive, in the custom installation > selection I have a choice of fdisk or disk druid. Which one is best to > use, and what are best selections for answering it? Neither one of those > packages look at hardware and offer defaults for partition names and > sizes. This should be a simpler situation than trying to have both > windows and linux on a machine though. Either one is good. diskdruid is more user friendly but fails in some instances. fdisk never failed for me assuming the drive parameters in BIOS were setup correctly. I like to split disk drive into following partition scheme assuming ATA type of disk drive: /dev/hda1 / (100 - 150 MB bootable) /dev/hda5 /usr (1 GB - 2 GB, depending on the system function; server etc.) /dev/hda6 /var (200 -400 MB, for logs etc.) /dev/hda7 /tmp (200 -300 MB) /dev/hda8 swap (twice the RAM size, 512 MB max) /dev/hda9 /home (the rest of the drive for user space) That scheme allows me to upgrade without reformatting home directory and makes it easier for backups etc. Note that creating a separate /boot partition doesn't give you anything while / (root) partition with some binaries in /bin and /sbin is enough to recover from some problems. Creating a single partition for everything is bad and you realize it when you want to upgrade if not sooner. If you need to partition identical drives many times then creating a file with partition information is worth doing and use sfdisk to automaticaly create partition from the information in file. Hope it answers your question. > Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> -- Rafael