[H-GEN] Linux & NTFS

[Robert Brockway]

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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Andrew Pullin wrote:

>     Finally, any suggestions on how I should partition the
> drive? It is a 40 G drive (which works out to be about
> 38Gb). I am planning on having 2 XP partitions (ie a C: and
> D: drive) that will be about 18-20 Gb total, and I want a
> main Linux partition that will end up about 10-12 Gb and a
> swap partition of 512 Mb (I have 512Mb RAM installed). This

I'd actually ramp it up to 1Gb and use tmpfs to put /tmp on your
swapspace.  Generally faster and makes for efficient use of harddrive
space.

> leaves about 5 Gb for another Linux Partition that I want to
> play with Linux From Scratch (and Beyond Linux From Scratch)
> in and another swap partition. Two questions that come to

Any reason you're not using the same swap partition with both of your
Linux installs?  Saves you some disk.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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