Already installed 9.2.1 on / , /home and has 502meg swap. Can't get lilo to work even after I redid things and told it to use 2nd HD.

Anyway, got new Partition Magic [old one is 4.0 and can't deal with ext2/3] and Drive Copy coming so will redo all. What's recommended as far as PT's size for various dir's? Have 10 Gig on 40 one for it but can add 10 more.

on / best size?
/root ???
/home ???
/usr ???

and so on.. should I keep it at / and /home or add 2-3 other partitions? Who thinks they have best set-up? Thanks..

Michael

Well I'd recommend about 2 gigs for /root and / together combined (i'd put these 2 in the same partion)

(then the rest evenly spaced between /usr and /home..

I'd vary the sizes of /usr and /home depeding if you do alot of source building...or download alot of mp3s...

more mp3s == more space on home

more application buidling/installing == more space on usr


You're shouldn't be putting much on the /root and / partitions after you install mandrake.

This works for me.

Dunno if it is the best or not




Cheers,

Gary

Why are you putting your directories on different partitions? This is not necessary, even for data protection in case of a system crash. I would suggest only two partitions (plus swap)...one for operating system & one for data. 4-8 Gig should be adequate for operating system, the rest for data. Leave the /home/user & /root directories on the O/S partition (the adduser command is going to put them there anyway) but leave them empty except for a symlink to directories on the data drive where the actual data is.
For a dual boot system, same idea except make the data drive vfat so both Windows & Linux can use it.
I would use cfdisk or Qtparted to do the partitions, but it must be run from a boot floppy or a run-from-CD Linux such as Knoppix or Morphix. Qtparted should be able to adjust your existing partition sizes without losing ay data.

Minimum sizes: I have a 6G HD set up dual boot winME & Linux. 1.8G for WinO/S, 2.3 for Linux O/S (current Mandrake setup uses about 1.8G) & the rest for data. swap is a bit small at 130 Meg but that's all I could spare.

Ok.. lets see. So if I got a bunch of d/l's etc. I should have a bigger /home and apps on /usr.

Then I guess I will leave at / for most 4 gig.. 1 swap, 2 server [which /? does the network use?] and 2 gig for /home. I like order

Do have the rest as FAT32 and will be converting old seagate to F32 too except a 525meg primary. Going to put old Dos 5 on it just in case ).

As it is the drive got hacked to place last partition to be first after original C: got screwed by CD/RW install of a Phillips. Techie there gave me the instructions on what to change via Norton Utilities hex editor otherwise all would have been lost.

Anyway, got 5-6 partitions I have stuff on and will need to access. So will leave those and let both 98 and MD use it. Don't foresee going back if MD works well. Knoppix did.. found everything incl. Lan and Cable which MD hasn't yet.

Things were so much easier back in the Dos 4/5 days.

Thanks for the input guys..

Michael