[ltp] How to parition my T23 drive.

[Bob Alexander]

Hugo Santiago Carrer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm about to partition my T23 hard drive and was wondering what the
> best scheme would be.
> I want, a small XP partition (hda1 may be?) and ther rest is for
> linux. But my main concern is about the hibernation partition, how
> should I do it, what size and where exactly.
> 
> Any ideas and/or advices are welcome.
> 
> CU
> Hugo

Hugo many recipes out there :) What followos is only MHO :)

T40 with Debian.

I would suggest something like:

around 100 MB on an ext3 filesystem on a partition (llok at my /dev/hda7)

All the rest on LVM2 (logical volumes). From my fstab entries you can 
see I have:

a 600 MB home (want that to fit on one CD)
a 2.7 GB /usr (a bit large) for my ca. 700 packages
a 1.5 GB /var (this might seem large but rem that debian places it's 
package cache here)

most are reiserfs.

I then have a /dev/hda1 for XP and a /dev/hda5 FAT32 to store data I 
want to be visible from both operating systems.

The swap on it's own phisical partition. Size equal to your RAM can be a 
good starting point. I would strongly advice on using the swsusp2 
patches for that. Fast, reliable. Would use GRUB on the MBR of your 
/dev/hda for both XP and Linux.


HTH,
Bob

/dev/hda7               120411     88198     25789  78% /
/dev/mapper/vg1-lvhome
                         667945    618016     21421  97% /home
/dev/mapper/vg1-lvusr
                        2780960   2194048    445600  84% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg1-lvvar
                        1439290    561164    816686  41% /var
/dev/hda5             35960416  26328400   9632016  74% /0windata
/dev/hda1             30716248  15304608  15411640  50% /0winxp