Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide - Partitioning

[Koroviev]

Fedora 4 installation guide says that "A Fedora Core system has at least three partitions", /boot, / and /swap, and refers to this configuration as the minimum number of partitions.
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-partitioning-general.html)

Normally, it's not necessary to have /boot on a separate partition and it is possible to go even with no swap. Is FC4 special in this regard, maybe because it strictly requires LVM volumes, or is it just the guide being imprecise?

Thanks.

[TWljaGFlbA]

I usually just do auto-partitioning... I've done it in FC1, FC2, and FC3 and it's never failed me. I have yet to try it with FC4 though. I beleive all my systems have 3 partitions.

[lyricalstress]

Normally, it's not necessary to have /boot on a separate partition and it is possible to go even with no swap. Is FC4 special in this regard, maybe because it strictly requires LVM volumes, or is it just the guide being imprecise?

To my knowledge FC4, FC3, etc don't require LVM volumes. I've always manually partitioned with a /boot, /, and /swap.

I have a 120 gig SATA drive with FC4 test 3 running as my primary system. It is set up with a /boot of 102 meg, /swap of 2000 meg (twice system ram), and / of 80 gig.

The rest is given over to copies of FC4 test 3 x86_64 and Mandrake 10.1.

Tried the LVM, but found it was causing a whole new set of problems that I didn't want to deal with yet. So went back to manual partitioning of everything for time being.

[capnlinux]

I have 3 drives in my Linux box. A small one to boot off of and two large ones that will be mirrored for redundencies sake. In that case, it is necessary to have /boot on the boot drive and convenient to have /swap there also. Then / is put on the mirrored drives so that if one fails, no data is lost. If the primary boot drive fails, very little is lost as almost no configuration data and no user files exist there.

[Jman]

/boot can't be on LVM. swap is optional. I suppose you could get by with two without swap.

[Koroviev]

Thanks, I installed FC4 with two partitions, / and swap (/boot in /), with no problems.