Re: [vox-tech] Partition Questions Part 2

[Bill Broadley <billMAPS@math.ucdavis.edu>]

The newest LILO has no restrictions, well technically it's the first
1024 TB (yes T).  Don't think that will be a problem for awhile.

With 45 GB drives around $150 I just partition swap + 1/3rd, then
do the full install on a single partition.   If you run out move
your biggest partition to the 2nd partition, probably /data /home or
/opt.  Then when version N+1 comes you can install onto the 3rd
partition, and then migrate gradually or even revert to the
previous OS.  Of course if you need the 3rd partition first you
can just mount it.

In any question /boot is useless these day.

This is all btw for desktop use, for a server I'd make at least /var
a seperate partition to prevent things like mail/print/whatever
problems from filling the entire disk.  Of course /home as a seperate
partition makes reinstalls that much easier...

Modify to taste....


On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:47:34PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> It appears that Disk Druid works in terms of megabytes, and that Fdisk
> works in terms of blocks.  I can think in terms of megabytes, but
> I can't think in terms of blocks.  What is a block?  What is the ratio
> between megabytes and blocks; that is, how many bytes are in a block or
> how many blocks are in a megabyte?
> 
> I'm not sure about this, but I read something like LILO has to be
> installed below the 1204th cylinder.  What is a cylinder?
> 
> Fdisk has entries like this:  Start 149    End 620.  Do these numbers
> refer to cylinders?  If not, how do you know if you're below 1204 (or
> whatever the number is)?
> 
> How do you know which numbers to start from and which numbers to end at
> when you are creating partitions on Fdisk?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Bob
> 
> --
> Robert G. Scofield
> rgscofield@ucdavis.edu
> 
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