Re: HD Partitions for YDL


Subject: Re: HD Partitions for YDL
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 22:27:49 MDT


On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Leo Zhuk wrote:

> I am installing YDL on PowerComputing PowerBase with 1.1G hardrive.

        1.1GB isn't a lot of space for a Linux distro.

> How many partitions I need? What type of partitions and what size should I
> make them?

        Ordinarily, I strongly recommend multiple partitions (swap, /,
        /usr, /var, /home, /tmp) but sith so little space, you really
        can only do swap and /. Make swap 128MB and / the rest.

        - Paul



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