Newbie Question- About Partition

[C M Reinehr]

Aslam,

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 22:40, Aslam Bari wrote:
> Dear All,
> I m installing Redhat Linux Enterprise. It comes with GUI installation with
> Disk Druid. I need to install and use best usage of my drives Plz someone
> guide me. Here is the detail of my Disk Drives partitions:-
>
> C:\ Drive 20 GB:- Windows XP
> D:\ Drive 20 GB:- Empty
> E:\ Drive 40 GB:- Empty
>
> RAM:- 256MB
>
> I need to install Linux on E: drive. So i need to know how much space i
> should spend on different sections below
>
> /boot :- ? much size
> /swap:- ? much size
> /       :- ? much size
>
>
> Do i need more sections. Do the sequence is ideal for three sections. If in
> future i increase the RAM , then how can i increase the swap size.
>
> Thanks for any help.

Here's a good place to start your research:

Linux Partition Howto: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html

For what it's worth, I've found little guidance with regard to sizing 
partitons. Mostly the advise is "big enough."

What I would recommend is to set up two primary partitions on E:/ (of course, 
this is Windows terminology. When you start your RH install you're going to 
have to convert this to /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, ... or if they are SCSI disks 
then /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, ...). The first and smaller partition need be only 
250MB or so and will be mounted as /boot. Use the rest of your disk for the 
second partition.

Then, use LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager) to divide up the second partition into 
slices to be mounted in lieu of regular partitions. Choose sizes sure to be 
large enough and then adjust them according to your needs later. (You even 
can include your other spare drive, D:/, in the logical volume if you 
choose.)

HTH

cmr
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