Well, perhaps not quite. \first, Red Hat does use a /boot partition. If you want that, 50mB will indeed be plenty. It might even be excessive. I just check three of my systems. Two have 6mB, and one has 14mB--the one I have cleaned out recently. I have always been perfectly happy with /boot as part of /. . My largest / is 500mB, another has 256, and yet another 20. I wouldn't expect more than 256 is really necessary, unless you're going to keep large mail inbox files, and not have /var as a separate partition, which it sounds like you won't. Let me pause at this point to suggest that if you do plan to develop a web server, or to run mail for several accounts that might get large amounts of mail, if you're going to do something like that, a separate /var would be a good idea. But, I don't think that's what you're going to do this time around. So, 256mB, for /, and let /boot just be part of / should be more than enough. 500Mb swap is good, but with 256mB RAM, you may never really use it. You could probably get away without one, even. You absolutely need more for /usr. Are you planning to install X so that you'll be ready for GNOME and gnopernicus next year? Then give it at least 4gB. In fact, to do an "everything" install these days, you need 4.6gB, so 5 isgB is safer. Of course, you could go through and deselect all the KDE packages. I'm not sure how much that will gain, but a fair amount, anyway. Certainly, you will have to do something like that if you make /usr 4gB, because "everything" won't fit. The rest, whatever is left, can be /home, but let it be ext3. You have another drive in this system which has Windows. Linux will be able to mount that drive, so you can certainly put anything you want to see from both environments there. If you really want all your user data to also be visible from Windows, /however, then go ahead and make home vfat. You might want to consider a separate /usr/local, perhaps 500mB, perhaps 1gB. This is where you put programs you compile. The reason for having it separate from /usr is to let you keep it when next you install. You'll always overwrite /usr when you do a fresh install, but there's usually no reason to overwrite /usr/local. Glenn Ervin writes: > From: "Glenn Ervin" <glennervin at cableone.net> > > Okay, I think I am ready to try, and I am going to offer a partitioning > scenario, and please let me know if this does make or not make sense: > 8 GB drive: > /boot 50 MB > /swap 500 MB (256 MB ram) > /root 4 GB > /usr approximately 1.7 MB > /home approximately the same as /usr > Also, I think the documentation said one of the partitions should be > configured as VFAT, so I can access some files from windows/DOS, and should > this be the partition: /home? > Thanks. > > "Live long and prosper", > O. Glenn Ervin (Lenny) > N0YJV > Northeast Nebraska > e-mail: > glennervin at cableone.net > The above address can also be found on MSM. > or my work e-mail: > gErvin at ncbvi.state.ne.us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
