[ltp] Drive Set-up on a TP760ED

[JavaNick]

on 1/18/02 12:54 AM, James Hawtin at oolon@ankh.org wrote:

> 2.5 gig is enough for linux for something however it will be tight and you
> should be picky about exactly what you want to install. will that little
> space I would suggest you use "one big partitition as /" for your system,
> rather than deviding it up into / /usr /var /tmp to make sure what free
> space you do have don't become fragmented across partitions.
> 
> Its not a suse system however to show you the sizes you can get away with
> here is the space I have used (not avialable space)
> / 70meg
> /var 52 meg
> /usr 1.2 gig could be pruned by about 100meg as I have 2 kernel source
> trees at the moment...
> 
> don't forget you will need some swap space, however you can use /dev/shm
> for /tmp which means swap can double as /tmp space.
> 
> All in all if your careful you would have about 1g free for use on a 2.5
> gig partition. Generally I find the amount of mp3s on a system explands to
> fill the ammount of available space, so I would suggest deleting xmms and
> then you have more space than your ever need ;-)
> 
> James
> 
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/ 70meg
> /var 52 meg
> /usr 1.2 gig could be pruned by about 100meg as I have 2 kernel source
> trees at the moment...

Do these partitions need to be at the front end or beginning of the hard
drive, meaning do I set up 1. 70 meg partition, then 2. 52 meg
partition......and then the Win98 partition last?
JavaNick








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