[ltp] How to parition my T23 drive.

[Bob Alexander]

Hugo Santiago Carrer wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:49:28 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>>
>>>CU
>>>Hugo
>>
>>Hugo many recipes out there :) What followos is only MHO :)
>>
>>T40 with Debian.
>>
>>I would suggest something like:
>>
>>around 100 MB on an ext3 filesystem on a partition (llok at my /dev/hda7)
>>
>>All the rest on LVM2 (logical volumes). From my fstab entries you can
>>see I have:
>>
>>a 600 MB home (want that to fit on one CD)
>>a 2.7 GB /usr (a bit large) for my ca. 700 packages
>>a 1.5 GB /var (this might seem large but rem that debian places it's
>>package cache here)
>>
>>most are reiserfs.
>>
>>I then have a /dev/hda1 for XP and a /dev/hda5 FAT32 to store data I
>>want to be visible from both operating systems.
>>
>>The swap on it's own phisical partition. Size equal to your RAM can be a
>>good starting point. I would strongly advice on using the swsusp2
>>patches for that. Fast, reliable. Would use GRUB on the MBR of your
>>/dev/hda for both XP and Linux.
>>
>>HTH,
>>Bob
>>
>>/dev/hda7               120411     88198     25789  78% /
>>/dev/mapper/vg1-lvhome
>>                         667945    618016     21421  97% /home
>>/dev/mapper/vg1-lvusr
>>                        2780960   2194048    445600  84% /usr
>>/dev/mapper/vg1-lvvar
>>                        1439290    561164    816686  41% /var
>>/dev/hda5             35960416  26328400   9632016  74% /0windata
>>/dev/hda1             30716248  15304608  15411640  50% /0winxp
>>
> 
> 
> Thank you for your answer Bob, but of course now I have new questions :-).
> 
> Sadly I need to use a 2.4.18 kernel for work related reasons (luckily
> Debian ;-)), do you know how good the 2.4.18 swsusp patch is? If it is
> not that good, what are my choices in getting supend functionality on
> the t23 (I'm mostly interested in suspend to disk actions).
> 
> CU
> hugo

Hugo have not tried myself on 2.4 (and cannot imagine why you should 
stay with that :->) but swsusp2 is a very good project and I am sure it 
will work aok. See:

http://www.suspend2.net/

Good luck,
Bob