Re: [aclug-L] Newbie Partitioning Questions

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, this has been discussed several times lately.  You may be able to 
find some useful tips from these discussions as well.  A quick search of
the archives revealed these thread entry points:

http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/aclug-l-199901/msg00101.html
http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/aclug-l-199808/msg00028.html

Note that you will want to look at the "followups" to these messages
for more details -- that's where the most information can be found.

rosencut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> partitions:  100MB for /root, 200MB for /home, 500MB for /usr and 127MB
> for swap.  I guess that leaves me with ~73MB to reallocate somewhere
> else--any suggestions?

It's good to have a /var partition.  100MB for root+var isn't a whole
lot.

> Should I go ahead and divvy up my D: drive with Partition Magic, or
> would I be better off letting the Red Hat install do it?  Do I need to
> concern myself with FAT16, FAT32 or whatever for the D: partition
> beforehand?

Let the Linux install do that.  Linux doesn't use FAT, so don't worry
about that.

> Another concern is how my resulting Linux/Win95 setup is going to affect
> Win95.  Will Win95 be able to "see" the resulting partitions?  My
> concern is reassigning drive letters for my SCSI Zip drive and CD-ROM.

No, it will not see them, so drive letters won't change.

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