Hard disk repartitioning-II

Hey all,

First up, thank you everyone for your prompt
help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this:

( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM )

1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and
delete all existing partitions. make a primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the
Windows OS and which will also have the data
which i want to access from Win and Linux.

2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/'
where i'll load Linux.

3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition,
which will have the linux only data.

4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at
any given time i run atmost (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so
i'm thinking of doing away with the swap
partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if
i'm wrong please do tell me.

so in short:

    PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB
      /dev/hda1

    EXTENDED PARTITION
      /dev/hda2
              LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB
               /dev/hda5

              LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB
               /dev/hda6

i know this is a long way to do it but this way i
avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and the other for my data) and have a substantial space for the 'Linux only data' partition.

now i would like to know what you all think about this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just starting out on Linux.

thank you for your help.

AK

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more
http://tax.yahoo.com
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

I think there's an issue here about Linux needing its boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk, or something like that. In any case, here's what I'd recommend:

hda1: 4 GB FAT Primary
hda3: 100 MB ext3 Primary
hda4: 150 MB linux-swap
hda2: Extended
hda5: 7 GB logical FAT
hda6: 7 GB logical ext3 Growable

hda1 is to house Windows' system files (the C: drive); hda3 for Linux's ``/boot'' directory; and hda2 being the extended partition that holds hda5 and hda6. hda5 you can use to store non-system Windows stuff (the D: drive); and hda6 for your ``/'' directory in Linux.

About the swap space --- call me old-fashioned but I think it really is necessary.

About hda6 being ``growable'': you may or may not choose to make it so, depending on how much expertise you're able to garner on the subject. If you do make it so, you'll be able to use every last megabyte of your hard disk. If not, you'll ``lose'' about 1.76 MB, because I rounded off space to the nearest integer.

HTH,
Yawar Amin
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

The 1024 cylinder limit only applies to older versions of Lilo, as I understand it. Any recent distro (released within the last 2 years or so?) should not have this problem.

James
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs