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From: Edward COFFEY
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00

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I have recently started to explore Linux and I want to know how my drive
should be partitioned.
It is only a small free area, 800meg or so.  What is really wrong with
having just a great big partition at / followed by the swap partition?
Also, where do applications traditionally go?  eg.  where should I put
the GIMP in my tree?

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From: Edward COFFEY <ecoffey@ecr.mu.oz.au>
Subject: HDD Partitions
Date: 1999/04/22
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