[ltp] Triple boot on 770z 14.1GB

[Tom Rockwell]

Chris Schumann wrote:

>  If security is a big deal (that is,
> securing your NT filesystem), there is an issue 
> that linux can read NTFS.

This is quite true (although I'm not aware of any programs other
than NT itself that read compressed NTFS partitions).  However one
should also realize that programs are available to read EXT2 from
windows and NTFS from dos/win 95.  If security is really a big deal
you need to provide physical security for the machine, which pretty much
eliminates portability...

> 
> 1 - 1.0 GB FAT16 with Win98, NTLDR and Loadlin
> 2 - 0.1 GB ext2 /boot

Don't forget the hibernation file - this makes it important to has
the first part be fat16.  You could skip the ext2 partition for lilo and
just put it (the boot files that is) on the fat16 partition - I think
this is what most dual booters do?

> 3 - 4.2 GB FAT32 for Win98 use
> 4 - 4.2 GB NTFS for WinNT use
> 5 - 0.2 GB linux swap
> 6 - 0.2 GB NTFS for WinNT swap use

I'm not a WinNT performance expert (thank gawd), but if you never
change the size of the swap file, it shouldn't fragment. 

> 7 - 3.2 GB ext2 /
> 8 - 1.0 GB ext2 /usr
>  = 14.1 GB

14GB -> to many options :-)

> 
> Or something similar. You may want /tmp, /var or other linux partitions,
> and you don't need an NT swap partition, but if you do, you won't fragment
> your swapfile.
> 
> Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>
> 
> "I am a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce."
>   - Jimmy James, News Radio

Tom
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