Any partition size suggestions ?

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Wed Jul 7 19:28:36 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:40, Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
> I would suggest with such a small drive, to give 256MB to swap, 100 MB
> to /boot and the rest to /
> 
> If you wanted to break it out a bit, maybe 500 to 800MB for /home
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:21, AdabalaP at schneider.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > I have a Compaq Presiaro 1277 (laptop), with 4.8 GB hard disk, 64 MB RAM,
> > 433 MHZ processor,  Want to install FC2 replacing Windows 98. Primary usage
> > will be as a workstation (development tools needed), Internet (should be
> > able to exchange MS Word, Excel format documents),  Multimedia (play songs,
> > movies locally and from the internet). What should be my HD partition look
> > like (e.g. /, /usr, /home, ... SWAP) given the above.
> > 
> > Thanks.
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> 
Also with a small hard drive I would use Custom Installation and not
include those programs that you won't use.
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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