Red Hat Configuration - partitioning question

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partitioning question

org

2004-06-20, 10:34 pm

I'm a novice with linux. I'm trying to install redhat on a system
with a 10gig harddrive. does anyone have sugestions on how many
partitions and how big they should be. Thanks Tony

Scott Lurndal

2004-06-26, 10:13 am

org <ko2sant@cox.net> writes:
>I'm a novice with linux. I'm trying to install redhat on a system
>with a 10gig harddrive. does anyone have sugestions on how many
>partitions and how big they should be. Thanks Tony

Best novice configuration:

/boot - 100MB
swap - 2*main memory size
/ - the rest

Server configurations differ, depending on requirements (i.e. file
system isolation for /tmp, /var/tmp etc).

scott