Lynux machine only

Lynux machine only

[Richard Villa]

I am setting a system that I plan to use for lynux primarily.  I am
wondering how to partition the hard drive?  The drive is a 10GB, and I know
that there is a limit partition size that Lynux can handle.

Richard

Re: Lynux machine only

[Thomas Ward]

Hi. Which distribution and version of Linux will you be using. If it is Red
Hat it has an option to audomatically partition which does everything for
you.
I've used Linux on drives as big as 30 gigs and still it keeps on working.
If you want to manually asign partitions I typically use fdisk, and make a
decent sized partition for boot, a decent sized swop, and perhaps 5 gb or so
for applications. The rest you could use for storing books, downloads,
mp3's, and so on.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Villa" <rvilla1@swbell.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:54 AM
Subject: Lynux machine only


> I am setting a system that I plan to use for lynux primarily.  I am
> wondering how to partition the hard drive?  The drive is a 10GB, and I
know
> that there is a limit partition size that Lynux can handle.
>
> Richard
>
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Re: Linux machine only

[Richard Villa]

My question I guess is, can you create one large partition, and use it
alone?

Richard

Re: Linux machine only

[Thomas Ward]

Well, I would recommend at least 2 partitions.You really should have a swop
partition, and one for everything else.
Using a single partition as you stated below would not  be a good idea.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Villa" <rvilla1@swbell.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Linux machine only


> My question I guess is, can you create one large partition, and use it
> alone?
>
> Richard
>
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Re: Linux machine only

[Kirk Wood]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Richard Villa wrote:
> My question I guess is, can you create one large partition, and use it
> alone?

Yes, you can. But if you don't make a swap partition, you want to have
enough memory.

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Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
	- President George Bush

Re: Lynux machine only

[Jason]

with 10 GB, I'd just make all but the last 255MB one big ext2 partition 
(newer versions of lilo get around the 1024 cylinder limit, btw) with the 
last bit at the end set aside for swap.

bu personally I only bother with fancy partitioning when: a. setting up a 
machine with multiple hard drives (like my own), or b. setting up a machine 
that will be serving out shell accounts, or file sharing (in that case it's 
nice to keep /home seperated so that your users can't mess the system up by 
filling the root device as easily).

On Wednesday October 24, 2001 12:54 am, you wrote:
> I am setting a system that I plan to use for lynux primarily.  I am
> wondering how to partition the hard drive?  The drive is a 10GB, and I know
> that there is a limit partition size that Lynux can handle.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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Re: Lynux machine only

[Kirk Wood]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason wrote:
> with 10 GB, I'd just make all but the last 255MB one big ext2 partition 
> (newer versions of lilo get around the 1024 cylinder limit, btw) with the 
> last bit at the end set aside for swap.

This will waste 128 MB of space. Unless things have changed, the largest
usable size for a single swap partition is 128 MB. I would recomend
keeping a seperate /home partition even if not serving others. I like to
keep my stuff that I will keep seperate. IF I was making a server for
others use, I would also keep sepearte /var and /tmp partitions arround.

=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
	- President George Bush

Re: Lynux machine only

[Jason]

Oh yeah, oops, I need sleep, I'm getting my powers of two wrong :-)

On Wednesday October 24, 2001 05:42 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason wrote:
> > with 10 GB, I'd just make all but the last 255MB one big ext2 partition
> > (newer versions of lilo get around the 1024 cylinder limit, btw) with the
> > last bit at the end set aside for swap.
>
> This will waste 128 MB of space. Unless things have changed, the largest
> usable size for a single swap partition is 128 MB. I would recomend
> keeping a seperate /home partition even if not serving others. I like to
> keep my stuff that I will keep seperate. IF I was making a server for
> others use, I would also keep sepearte /var and /tmp partitions arround.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
>
> "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> 	- President George Bush
>
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Re: Lynux machine only

[Frank Carmickle]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:
> This will waste 128 MB of space. Unless things have changed, the largest
> usable size for a single swap partition is 128 MB. I would recomend

Nope swap can now be 2gb.  But why?  Ram is cheap.

-- 
     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

Re: Lynux machine only

[Kirk Reiser]

There is no partition limit that linux can handle.  There is a limit
where older lilo's could reach to find the boot tables.  That is long
since past, probably more than two years ago.

I  like to stay with primary partitions myself, so I always split the
drive into four partitions. 

/dev/hda1 '/' doesn't need to be very large really.  Once you've put
most programs on the system it doesn't grow very much at all.  The one
caveat is /tmp/ which grows and shrinks as you use programs.  About
500mb should be plenty for '/'.

/dev/hda2 swap, I tend to keep my swap between partitions so the
kernel can get to it without needing to move very far.  About 256mb or
memory size if larger is my favourate setting.

/dev/hda3 /usr/,  usually the largest partition.  Depending on how
much mail/webpage stuff you're going to have /usr could be about 8gb.

/dev/hda4 /var/, Whatever is left on the drive.  This needs to be
bigger than what I've allocated if you have a lot of mail/web
traffic.  But that would have to be one hell of a lot of traffic.

These are just my personal ideas on how I'd set up the drive. YMMV.

  Kirk

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e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
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Re: Lynux machine only

[Charles Crawford]

Hi Richrd,

         There is an old dos program called pertition magic that will work 
for you.  If yoiu can't find it, I can ask Janina for it.

-- charlie.
At 02:54 AM 10/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I am setting a system that I plan to use for lynux primarily.  I am
>wondering how to partition the hard drive?  The drive is a 10GB, and I know
>that there is a limit partition size that Lynux can handle.
>
>Richard
>
>
>
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Re: Lynux machine only

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Charles if he was going to use Partition magic he'd be better with the
new 7.0 version, because it works with Linux partitions.
However, why pay the money when Linux can do the same thing for free?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford@acb.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: Lynux machine only


> Hi Richrd,
>
>          There is an old dos program called pertition magic that will work
> for you.  If yoiu can't find it, I can ask Janina for it.
>
> -- charlie.
> At 02:54 AM 10/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I am setting a system that I plan to use for lynux primarily.  I am
> >wondering how to partition the hard drive?  The drive is a 10GB, and I
know
> >that there is a limit partition size that Lynux can handle.
> >
> >Richard
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Lynux machine only

[Richard Villa]

I am going to partition the drive from scratch, with no OS on it at all.

Richard

Re: Lynux machine only

[Raul A . Gallegos]

Richard.

rvilla1@swbell.net said the following on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:54:44AM -0500:
> I am setting a system that I plan to use for lynux primarily.  I am
> wondering how to partition the hard drive?  The drive is a 10GB, and I know
> that there is a limit partition size that Lynux can handle.
> 
First off welcome to the list.  Second, Linux is L i n u x just so you
know.  What I would recommend is a partition setup like this.

/dev/hda1 swap size 128 meg
/dev/hda2 linux size 3 gig
/dev/hda3 linux size *remainder of hard drive*

Then use /dev/hda1 for your linux swap, /dev/hda1 for your root /
partition where all your os will go on and finally /dev/hda3 as your
/home partition.  Everyone will have their own personal preferences such
as mounting /usr/local on it's own partition or /var on it's own but
this is up to you.  Still others might just put everything on 1 huge
partition.  Just make sure you have a swap.

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