Re: One last quick question

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On Thursday 17 October 2002 21:38, Glenn Murphy wrote:

> One last quick question, I currently have 2 hdd (one 20 gig and one 120
> gig).  What I want to do is resize the 120 gig and put gentoo on that.
> But, one last question I have is, does gentoo have a partition manager
> on the installation?  Or will I have to adjust the partitions
> before-hand?  Thanks for all of your help.

	From my experience installing it last week, it does not have a partition 
manager (like Partition Magic or whatever) unless you count [c]fdisk.  :) 
If you have a 120GB drive (Pretty groovy, BTW!  I bought one at a 
computer show last week for $175; having all that extra space is what 
prompted me to experiment with other distros in the first place.) I'd 
suggest slicing it up into several chunks before the installation.  From 
what I understand, even if you installed *every* possible piece of 
software you could put it all in less than 10 gigabytes.
	What I usually do is make /home, /tmp, and /var separate partitions.  
That way, if something fills up /tmp, the rest of the system is still ok; 
the same goes for /var.  Making /home separate will help if you decide to 
blow everything away next month and put in Slackware or something -- you 
could erase everything else but still have all your personal stuff intact.

	If you just mean, "Is there a means of slicing up my physical drive 
space into logical drives included on the CD?" then the answer is yes.  
However, there's no way to resize partitions in-place; they must be 
deleted and the resulting free space re-allocated. 

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