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Unia

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[Solved] Partitioning

My 3rd topic already in two days Oh well, I'm learning quite a bit.
A quick question about partitioning. If I chose the auto-prepare option, the installer will make different partitions (one for boot, one for /, one for /home etcetera) Is this really necessary or can I also make a swap and an / partition?

Last edited by Unia (2010-05-23 12:52:10)

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archman-cro

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Re: [Solved] Partitioning

Hmm, depends on what you wish. All is clearly explained in the Beginner's Guide on the wiki. But you will probably want to go with a manual setup, so you can add mountpoints etc yourself. btw, consider avoiding a swap partition if you have many RAM in your system. Also, I advise you to make a separate /home partition, just in case of breakage, so you don't lose all the data.
Double check the Beginner's Guide.

Unia

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Re: [Solved] Partitioning

I have read the beginner's guide, but as I'm coming from Fedora which just makes one big root partition I wondered.
I've got 4 gigs of RAM, I guess that'll be enough? And is a separate boot partition recommended, or can I just make a / and a /home partition?

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Re: [Solved] Partitioning

Sure, you don't need a swap partition.
Well, here's my disk layout:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1217        1338      979965   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            1339        7297    47865667+  83  Linux

I have swap for hibernating, and I have 1.2GB RAM only, so...yeah.
You probably won't need a /boot partition, but better keep googling on that subject. This layout works nicely for me.

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Unia

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Re: [Solved] Partitioning

Thanks, I'll go for a / and an /home partition then.
Can't believe Im actually going to try this.

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