From: Peter <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: A Hard Disk for Linux and Windows Date: 28 Jul 2003 10:12:07 +0200
Am Mon, 2003-07-28 um 09.09 schrieb Suresh Babu A. [IT Engineer]:
> I am having a 40 GB hardisk and 256 MB RAM, in which i have already
> installted windows 2000 pro and i want to have linux. I have tried to
> install linux and i struck up while partition the disk [ /, /swap and so
> on]. Can any one suggest how to partition the remainning 17 GB for linux.
17 gb is a lot of space. A good idea might be:
Pri 50 mb for /boot (dev/hda2) Pri 300 mb for swap (dev/hda3) Pri 16,65 gb for Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
inside the Logical Volume
/Vol/rhl about 4 gb for / /Vol/home about 8 gb for home
making this a Log Vol is useful as `expanding` ur hard disk space woud be easy ..
say u have lot of mp3's / database files and finds ur existing disk space insufficient then
u could add nother HDD (more disk space) with relative ease and w/o disturbing ur existing partitions
although u might not require immediate disk space :)
You may leave the remaining 4 gb free and allocate it later according to your needs, e.g. you may make a temporary /Vol/test for a second / to test a new version or a beta (being able to access your data in /home from both systems) or allocate it for databases (/var/lib/pgl) or /var or anything else. Or you may adjust /home or / later if you need more or less space, which depents of your concrete working requirements.
During installation RedHat may complain about /boot with a warning, it will be not bootable. If you own a quite recent hardware, you can ignore it savely.
Grub boot manager will savely detect your windows partition and add it to its menu. So, you can allow to modify the mbr (or you modify the windows boot mechanism, but I don't know how to do :-) )
Peter
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