Re: [linuxiran] Best Partitioning Scheme

[Arash Zeini]

On Monday 29 December 2003 11:10, ocean wrote:

> Hi
>
> I finally bought my laptop!
> It's a compaq presario 2523.(40 GB HDD, 448 MB, 2.66
> GHtz)

Congrats!

> Now before getting down to installing linux( though on
> her second boot I tried Knoppix 3.3 on it) and
> considering that it is fully mine( not sharing it with
> any one else) I'd like to know your suggestions on
> creating a good partitioning scheme for installing at
> least two linux distros(1 for certain RH9 and the
> other a debain(based) distro).
>
> Thanks in advance

On times I used to have three different distros on one laptop, but now I 
have two and use a scheme like this:

/boot: 32 MB
/: 5 GB
/home: as to your liking
/usr: I have around 10 GB
/secondboot:
/secondroot

Hope this helps,
Arash
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