[ltp] How to parition my T23 drive.

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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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.

=46irst, decide if you are using apm or acpi for your power management.

If apm, hibernation must be to a FAT32 partition.  I recall that I have=20
hibernated to both a dedicated partition and to a file on an existing Windo=
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partition with my T21.  I have a T42 now, and have not tried to get apm=20
working, but I did take my Partition Magic 8 CD and convert the XP partitio=
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(hda1) back to FAT32 after it forced a conversion to NTFS during set up.

Size is RAM + Video RAM + a bit.  IBM's tool will tell you and make the=20
filesystem if you like.

=46or swsup I've read the recommendation that swap should be > ~130% of RAM=
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Mine is 150% of RAM - perhaps I'll shrink it with more experience.

Consider putting /home on it's own partition so that nuking something might=
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spare your personal data/settings/etc.  It's faster to not lose data than t=
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restore it from backup.

I put swap between / and /home in the un-scientific hope that disk access=20
might be quicker generally - swap is the smallest partition, so the distanc=
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to traverse is less typically than if the heads have to skew over 10G of / =
to=20
get to /home.  Probably it doesn't make a difference.

Many people use reiserfs.  I have tried 3 times with fresh installs, and in=
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each case the system was corrupted requiring a re-install within the first=
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week.  Ext3 hasn't let me down, and as an added bonus, it's easy to resize =
an=20
ext3 partition (although that isn't something that need be done often).  I=
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don't know why reiser hasn't worked for me, but I can't argue with a system=
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that won't boot anymore.

Regards,
Bret

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