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Hi Biggles.

biggles@werple.mira.net.au (Biggles Cheung) writes:


>	In order to properly boot up Linux via LILO, I'd like to have a 
>small partition within 1024 cylinder boundary holding all necessary files 
>for Linux boot-up, and maybe two or three more filesystems say /var, 
>/home, and /usr, etc.
On one hand this is agood idea, on the other hand you have to check out
exactly how big your partitions will be. It is save and usefull to use
different partition for, lets say /home , or /var. But if you make a
/home partition with 20MB, and you will have at least only 5MB on that
tree, the other 15 MB are wasted,, ,you can't get this capability. If
/home is a part of a big parttion, you can use that 15 MB.

>	I know how to create partition using fdisk under Linux, but I'd 
>like to know just how large the boot partition need to be. Since I am 
>installing Slackware Pro from cdrom, what do I need to do to make sure 
>all necessary files will be copied to that partition and the rest be 
>copied to another partition.

Hmm, I have a 210MB partition installed with Slackware 2.1, I have X,
Emacs, TeX, UUCP, Newssystem, Mail, and so on, and all that make about
160 MB. If you would have a different partition for /var something about
300MB will be OK

>	Can I have more than I filesystems in ONE partition ? If yes, how 
>do I designate different pathname to different filesystems, such as /usr 
>to 1st filesystem and /var to 2nd filesystem , etc. And when I install 
>the Slackware Pro, how can I ask INSTALL to copy files to the filesystem 
>that I want?

You should use only one filesystem, the extsfs. If you want to mount
different partitions somewhere under /, it has nothing to do with the
filesystem.

Bye, Volker.

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