Re: [TCLUG:16545] Partition sizes?

["Jeff Lehman" <jeffclehman@mediaone.net>]

I have been wondering about this for a long time.  I just set up my RH 6.2
box about a week ago.  I only have a 1GB HD so i don't have much space to
lie around.  I had to make a 12MB /boot partition because the boot files
have to lie within the 1023rd cylinder,  lilo gave me an error if i remember
correctly.  Otherwise i just made a 64MB swap partition and left the rest to
/.  If there's someone out there that can explain what the /usr, /home,
/etc, /var and those partitions are for exactly that would be cool,  the
install howtos didn't talk about any of this very well.   Thanks in advance

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Siems, Gregory" <gregory.siems@pca.state.mn.us>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:24 PM
Subject: [TCLUG:16545] Partition sizes?


> I'm going to be installing Red Hat on my home computer and have about 2.5
Gig of space to play with.
>
> I've looked around and read whatever I could find on the subject of
partitioning the drives but have yet to come up with good guidelines for
setting the partitions (which ones and how big).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Greg
>
>
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