Re: HDD Partitions

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From: Philip Zabukosek ANDERSON
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00

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"James Mandy" <jamesm@space.net.au> writes:

>800Mb eh?

>75Mb Swap
>150MB / root
>the rest in /usr

>I have "swap, / , /usr, /home, /var/log, /www, /squid, /public" but you dont
>have the space just swap , root and /usr is fine.

>Cheers, James

>> 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?
>>

I have 10 in /boot

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From: pza@cs.mu.oz.au (Philip Zabukosek ANDERSON)
Subject: Re: HDD Partitions
Date: 1999/04/22
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