How ever big you want it:). I forget how big your drive is but I for example, have a 20 gig hard drive here and I need some additional space for winblows plus my new linux partition so I used cfdisk to allocate 8 meg for winblows, 128 meg (I believe) for swap since I have less memory and let cfdisk give me the rest for linux native. Now, I've heard various stories about upper physical limits for linux file systems so I don't know if you will run into that as as a problem or not. In general, I usually allocated the specific amount I knew for swap and just let the rest go to linux. I always ran individualistic environments here so I never concerned myself with splitting up large partitions. The thing I want avoid at all cost is having unusable space on the hard drive; that is, I don't wanna end up with space that is not a part of any partition, that space can't be used by anyone! This should make more sense to you when you run cfdisk and see how much free space is actually available after allocating each partition. Good luck. On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:40:27AM -0500, Jason Symes wrote: > Ok, so how big should I make the root partition then? > At 10:59 PM 9/11/02 -0700, you wrote: > > > >If it were me, I would go with a single linux partition and a single > >partitition for swap and let the distribution's setup procedures guide > >you along the path of setting up your basic file systems. With that > >much memory, I wouldn't think you would need any more than 512 meg of > >swap but that's just my own view. a whole gig for swap seems awful > >high to me. > > Jason Symes > kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat > can cause kids > The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the > zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) > if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. > If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! > Just trying to plug away! -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
