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> I have been trying to install Linux Red Hat 6.2 and to be very frank I > am new to the linux world. I have a 20 GB hard disk and I partioned 5 GB > for linux. I am able to reach the point in the installation procedure > where it asks me the partion details. If you look through the HOWTOs, you can find advice about how to partition a hard drive. However, that advice was written when hard drives were more expensive -- these days, if you're buying a new computer, it's hard to find a hard drive *smaller* than 4 GB. I recently had to re-partition the hard drive on one of my machines; this was running Red Hat 6.0 and had a 6 GB drive. Before I repartitioned, I made some notes on how the files were distributed. /bin (essential command binaries) 5 MB /boot (files needed to boot up) 5 MB /dev (special files for devices) 3 MB /etc (host-specific configuration) 3 MB /home (user home directories) 362 MB /lib (essential shared libraries) 25 MB /sbin (system binaries) 4 MB /tmp (temporary files) <1 MB /usr (various other stuff) 947 MB /usr/bin 102 MB /usr/doc 122 MB /usr/include 10 MB /usr/lib 315 MB /usr/local 36 MB /usr/sbin 7 MB /usr/share 260 MB /usr/src 4 MB /usr/X11R6 54 MB /var (logs, Web pages, database) 35 MB (For more information on what should go in each directory, you might want to check out the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard at http://www.pathname.com/fhs, although Linux distributions don't completely follow the FHS.) When I repartitioned and installed Red Hat 6.2, I set it up like this: /boot on /dev/hda1: 7 MB /usr on /dev/hda5: 1506 MB /usr/local on /dev/hda6: 1506 MB /var/lib on /dev/hda7: 1004 MB /var/web on /dev/hda8: 635 MB /home on /dev/hda9: 300 MB swap space on /dev/hda10: 258 MB /tmp on /dev/hda11: 258 MB /var/log on /dev/hda12: 258 MB / on /dev/hda13: 156 MB /opt on /dev/hda14: 101 MB /var on /dev/hda15: 101 MB This number of partitions is probably overkill, especially if (as your question implies) you are going to be dual-booting Linux and another OS, but something like this scheme may work for you. Note that I picked large values for /var/lib and /var/web, and made them separate partitions, because I'm planning to run this machine as a Web server and database server. (Under my previous partitioning scheme, there was no /var partition, and so all of the /var stuff got stored in my / partition, which only had 80 MB. Oops.) -- "The big dig might come in handy ... for a few project managers whom I think would make great landfill." --Elaine Ashton == seth gordon == sgordon at kenan.com == standard disclaimer == == documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma == - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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