new disk layout

[Bill Davidsen]

muhammad panji wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Mick M.<off_by_1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi;
>>  I would like some input on disk partitions.
>> I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine,
>>
>> At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB.
>> The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives.
>>
>> I want to remove the IDE drive and install XPx64 on the new drive as a VirtualBox image.
>> I also want to install F11 on that drive.
>>
>> My other SATA drive is F10, I want to leave that alone and dual boot F10/F11.
>>
>> OK  - what do you suggest for partitions on this drive?
>> I want to use "regular" partitions - not the default LVM stuff.
>>
>> I was thinking:
>> 1 /boot ext3 200M
>> 2 swap 82    4G ( I have 2G memory)
> 2 G of swap is enough
> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15252
> 
Unfortunately you need enough swap to hold all of dirty program memory if you 
ever suspend, and the upgrade from 2GB to 4GB is very common, so planning ahead 
is a good thing.

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