Almost, the swap partition and the file fdisk can look at have me curious. Is swap properly called /swap when keying in its name for these utilities or do you just key in swap and usr and / and have linux figure out the rest? Does a way exist to have fdisk generate a file it can use later to reconstruct the partitions automatically? If not, where's the documentation on how to make one of those files. Though for now I'm doing this system for home use and it will be doing ppp over a phone line for outside communications This might lessen possibilities for future error. For now some viruses can attack linux and I don't rule out having to reinstall at some future time for that reason. Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rafael Skodlar wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >