Re: A Hard Disk for Linux and Windows

>From: Peter <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: A Hard Disk for Linux and Windows
>Date: 28 Jul 2003 10:12:07 +0200
>
>Am Mon, 2003-07-28 um 09.09 schrieb Suresh Babu A. [IT Engineer]:
> > I am having a 40 GB hardisk and 256 MB RAM, in which i have already
> > installted windows 2000 pro and i want to have linux. I have tried to
> > install linux and i struck up while partition the disk [ /, /swap and so
> > on]. Can any one suggest how to partition the remainning 17 GB for 
>linux.
>
>17 gb is a lot of space. A good idea might be:
>
>Pri 50 mb for /boot  (dev/hda2)
>Pri 300 mb for swap  (dev/hda3)
>Pri 16,65 gb  for Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
>
>inside the Logical Volume
>
>/Vol/rhl  about 4 gb for /
>/Vol/home  about 8 gb for home

making this a Log Vol is useful as `expanding` ur hard disk space woud be 
easy ..
say u have lot of mp3's / database files and finds ur existing disk space 
insufficient then
u could add nother HDD (more disk space) with relative ease and w/o 
disturbing ur existing partitions

although u might not require immediate disk space :)


>
>You may leave the remaining 4 gb free and allocate it later according to
>your needs, e.g. you may make a temporary /Vol/test for a second / to
>test a new version or a beta (being able to access your data in /home
>from both systems) or allocate it for databases (/var/lib/pgl) or /var
>or anything else. Or you may adjust /home  or / later if you need more
>or less space, which depents of your concrete working requirements.
>
>During installation RedHat may complain about /boot with a warning, it
>will be not bootable. If you own a quite recent hardware, you can ignore
>it savely.
>
>
>Grub boot manager will savely detect your windows partition and add it
>to its menu. So, you can allow to modify the mbr (or you modify the
>windows boot mechanism, but I don't know how to do  :-)  )
>
>
>Peter
>
>
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