Hi,
I can't see the difference between your method, and using a custom
layout. An advantage to the custom layout is that you don't get the
unnecessary /boot partition.
--
Bill in Denver
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I did something that wasn't in the howto with disk druid and so far as I
> can tell, it was successful.
> First I started out by selecting default partitioning. Next where it said
> view and modify partitions I picked yes. Third, I got onto the big slash
> partition and hit f2 and was asked to you want to create a new partition
> or logical volume and I chose to create a new partition.
> 4) Since I want to create two more partitions and the slash partition is
> the space from which these are being taken I figured the slash
> partition should be 1/6 of the original space and the /usr/local should
> be 1/3 and the /home should be 1/2. So I keyed in my mount point for
> /usr/local and divided the 113,354MB by 1/3 and keyed that number in as
> the size. I had to backspace over the 1 that was already there to get
> rid of it. Then having finished up that partition I repeated the
> process after having gotten back onto the slash partition and created
> the /home partition with 1/2 the space that was originally in that
> slash partition.
> If possible could some of you try this method out and see if it's any
> easier? If so, it may be useful to update the howto's disk druid section
>
>
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