hello everyone, I still have not partitioned yet as I am not clear as to which hard drive is being selected. Both fDisk & Druid call my second hard drive /dev/hde, and I suspect that this is due to the fact that it is wired up via an IDE card, as it is a removable drive. I even had some sighted assistance, and my readers were not sure what was about to happen based on the choices made. I cannot risk wiping out my /dev/hda1 drive. I think I am going to open my computer and unhook the /dev/hda, and hook that cable to the drive being called /dev/hde. This way, I will only get 1 drive showing, and I will not hurt anything if something goes wrong. But regarding the partition sizes: Thanks for all the input so far, but Janina mentioned something that I did not know would make a difference, and so I will mention it now, and again, feel free to suggest partition sizes for an 8 GB drive. Janina offered some partition sizes thinking that I would not want to do FTP, and actually, I do want to put an FTP site, and I am hoping to point the Linux server to the FAT32 drive /dev/hda1 for file storage. But I am choosing "custom" in the install, because I want to use Linux for all the things I use windows to do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:25 PM Subject: Re: partitioning Adam Myrow writes: > > 4GB should be more than enough for the root partition. > True, but 1.5mB, the way he originally spec'd it, is way too little for /usr. He doesn't need that much in / > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
