Need help with partitioning
Adil Drissi
adil.drissi at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 9 00:11:43 UTC 2008
Hi thank you for your answer,
I didn't understand many things.
1. When you speak about fedora live cd do you mean the cd that i used for installing fedora? in That case there are some options when i boot from it, which one should i use?
2. when using fdisk should i use n for creating the partitions you sugested or i must unpartition everything. In that case how?
May be these are obvious questions for people who already use these tchniques but for me it is really the first time. Maybe i should read some tutorial dealing with that. Do you know about one explaining just the basic things that i need or you can have the time to answer this kind of questions?
Thanks a lot
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Peter Boy <pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> From: Peter Boy <pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de>
> Subject: Re: Need help with partitioning
> To: adil.drissi at yahoo.com, "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 5:55 PM
> Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 10:07 -0700 schrieb Adil Drissi:
> > I've a laptop of 50GB. I am using the half for
> fedora 8 and i want to
> > use the rest for windows. I made a lot of
> modifications to the
> > partition in previous installations by win or fedora
> and now i want
> > you to help me figure it the right way.
>
> An often discussed topic.
>
> Given you will "do it right" and don't need
> to preserve the current
> partitions I would boot from a Fedora live CD or rescue
> system and use
> fdisk to partition the disk by fdisk /dev/sda
>
> prim partion 1: 24 gb hpfs
> prim partion 2: 50 gb ext3 (for boot, you may safely
> ignore
> the warning)
> prim partion 3: 500 mb swap
> prim partion 4: rest of the disk for LVM
>
> In LVM:
> 8 - 10 gb lvSYS for the root file system
> 10 gb lvHOME for /home
>
> you may have about 2 gb unallocated which you can use later
> by lvm
> manager according to your needs.
>
> For root: 8 gb is enough for normal use (office desktop)
> and if you
> don't install "all" software packages. 10 gb
> is pretty much comfortable
> in this case, but you may need it for /home.
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