[ltp] How to parition my T23 drive.

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On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:49, Bob Alexander wrote:
> 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

My scheme is
hda1 MS XP  8GB
hda2 extended
hda5 Common Data 40 Gb fat 32
hda6 /boot 100 MB ext3
hda7 /          6 to 8 GB   ext3
swpa   500 MB
hda8 / home  5 to 6 GB ext3

Frank