[ltp] 600x
Antiphon
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:40:21 -0500
Satish Balay wrote:
For non-server systems, I usually only have 3 partitions: /, swap, and /home
You should always have a /home partition in case you have a system
failure. It will allow you to reinstall w/o losing your most important data.
>On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, j_f_clark wrote:
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>>Since your earlier posts indicated that you couldn't install
>>Windows, I assume you can let Red Hat/Anaconda have the whole disk
>>and do its thing which should eliminate your problems.
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>Yes, I'll also recommend using 'auto' partitioner - instead of
>manually allocating partitions. The default scheme with 2 partitions
>(1. root 2. swap) should be a reasonable thing for most uses - esp
>with the journaling ext3 filesystem.
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>Satish
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