[SpankyGSpoon]

Hi, the newby has another question. I am in the process of installation of Redhat 6. Does any body have any reccommendations for a disk partition strategy. I have a 2G hard drive and I want to install SO, and set up user directories for 3 users. What I have planned now goes a little like this.....
1-74 149152+ LN (Ibelieve that this is for my root '/')
75-149 151200 LN (for some unknown partition)
150-500 707616 LN (for my '/usr')
501-800 604800 LN (maybe for my '/home')
501-800 ?????? E (Should I use an extended partition?)
800-973 ?????? Swap (This I need I know but how much, since I have 32MB of RAM?)
Well if you are confused to what my question is...here it is again....can someone show me what a good partition strategy looks like with a 2G hard drive...and should I use an Extened partition(what is that anyway?) Any info would be helpful. TY.

[MikeV]

Honestly, I wouldn't even bother with partitioning like that yet. Just use the entire 2 GB for your / partition, with the exception of a 128M swap partition.

Once you get the hang of Linux, you can always redo your partition... I'd get the basics down before you start with all that good stuff though

M

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[SpankyGSpoon]

ok but what about my /usr, and /home

[MikeV]

They'll be automatically created beneath your / partition.

I only have 2 GB dedicated to Linux at the moment, and it's all just the / partition. I haven't run into any problems yet.

Mike