[ltp] How to parition my T23 drive.

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:19, 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.

This is how I have setup my machine ( R40 ) partitions.
It dual boots Win-XP and Gentoo Linux.

imogen linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 17.0 GB, 17094208000 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2208 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         677     5118088+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2             678         680       22680   83  Linux
/dev/hda3             681         759      597240   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4             760        2208    10954440    5  Extended
/dev/hda5             760        2208    10954408+  83  Linux

This gives me about 1.5Gb free space in Windows.
/dev/hda2 is the Gentoo boot partition.
Big swap partition to allow software "hibernate to swap" to do its thing.
kernel line in grub.conf looks like this:-
/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5 video=vesa-tng:1024x768-24@60 \ 
splash=verbose,theme:emergence resume=/dev/hda3

The windows partition and possibly the windows recovery
area are going to get the push soon.

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C. S.