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2005-03-07, 10:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 2005-03-07, 10:23 PM by quannum.)
Hello people,
do you have any suggestion what i need to change for an optimal partition table ?
current partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 793 6369741 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 794 859 530145 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 860 10011 73513440 83 Linux
hda1 i use for the fedora core 3 system.
hda3 is my swap partition.
hda3 i use for mp3,movie etc.
do you have any suggestion what i need to change for an optimal partition table ?
thank you for reading and replays if..
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Generally it is good to have /boot on an own small (like 32M) partition.
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I typically do:
/dev/(x)da1 as 100MB /boot
/dev/(x)da2 as swap (between 1x and 2x total system memory)
/dev/(x)da3 extended
/dev/(x)da5 as 8GB-ish / (for just O/S operations)
/dev/(x)da6 as * (whatever is left or however you want to break it down from here)
For machines with less than 512MB RAM, I'll do a minimum of 512MB for swap.
For anything with more that 512MB RAM, I'll do about 1.1x amount .. want to make sure you have a little more than the exact amount of RAM. So for like 1024MB RAM I'd do 1100MB swap.
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thanks for those replays, realy appreciated.
with those and some suggestions from some guys on irc i made it like this:
hda1 /boot
hda2 /
hda3 /swap
hda4 /storage
and i used the this command at boot options of the fc3 cd: linux reiserfs
so i could use reiser with fc3. because it take less space and it is faster than ex3, (my opinion)
thanks for your time!