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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:02
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|Ok, I'm new to linux, and I'm about to install Redhat 8.0. | |I have purposely purchased and installed a second hard drive (80G). | |I have read various posts that /,/home & something else should be |partitiioned (forgive my ignorance with directory names). | |So before I install Redhat 8, what size partitions do I assign to what |directories (The whole 80G will be devoted to linux or could I effectively |half it) | |Any advice would be appreciated. Ah partitioning. Controversy reigns here. Candidates for separate partitions and why: /home so you don't wipe out your user files next reinstall /usr/local ditto for user installed software I suggest at least the above. Say 2G for /usr/local, 10G for / and the rest to /home (for your stash of MP3s, etc, natch :-). The others below are less applicable to you. /var if you run a server and you don't want log and temp files to fill up / /tmp ditto for temp files /usr if you want to export /usr to other computers RO /opt as for /usr /boot for old BIOSes that can't boot from beyond cylinder 1024 you put this as the first partition on the boot disk
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