Guest German Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) Hello Friends! I am planning to install Mandriva 2007 Power Pack onto my computer system. I've left 30Gb of Hard disc to install it (yesterday I made a partition under windows xp for my future Mandriva). Before installing Mandriva, I would like to ask you for help about partitioning properly. I have 768 Mb of RAM. The available hard disc -as I said before- is 30Gb. I know that Mandriva can create the partitions automatically for me but I am not sure if it chooses the best partitions. I also want to understand how the partitions should be set. I like to do some things on my own. So, taking into account my system, What partitions should I create? What file system should I choose for each of them? and What size should they be? I know that I can find a lot of information about this in many topics but, to put things in order, I would like to put it all together here. Thanks in advance for your valuable help. G. Lorenzo.- Edited March 11, 2007 by German Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Partioning Linux can be done in many different ways. The simplest (for desktop/home) use is to stick to just three: / --> will also contain /usr, /var. Give it 5 Gb unless you want to install huge amounts of programs swap --> with that much RAM you won't need much. GMake this 512 Mb -- 1 Gb /home -- all user data Advantage of separating out userdata is that you can re-install (even re-partition) and leave all user data intact. Server system benefit from separating out at least /var, but maybe more partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I also dual boot with XP, that is why i have this partition arrangement: / >> my linux partition, including /home swap >> swap partition hdc2 >> my shared FAT32 partition, so I can access it both from XP and Linux. It holds the music collection and some important data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) Simply use the latest gparted liveCD. It's absolutely great. Your swap partition should be at most 512MB, although 256 MB should be enough. Edited March 11, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest German Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Thank you! And what about the file system? Should it be ext3? Thanks again G. Lorenzo.- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 ext3 is fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I was using ReiserFS 3.X for years, but recently converted to ext3, mainly due to worries about ReiserFS future due to its developer's recent "adventures" with justice. It's slightly slower than ReiserFS, gets fragmented more easily, FS checks take more time, but it probably is a bit more stable and reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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