HD partitions

[aecordoba]

I have a 40 GB hard drive to install FC5 in my Athlon XP 2500+ PC with 256 MB of RAM.
I want to use FC5 for software programming and I will install GNOME and KDE enviroment, and the PC will be used for 3 or 4 users.

1) Somebody can tell me how must I part my HD? Or Where can I find that information?

2) Must I use LVM?

Thank you in advance.

[pparks1]

1. You can partition your hard drive as you see fit. I would suggest that you create a 512MB swap partition based on having 256MB of RAM. As far as the remaining space.....it all depends. For example, many seperate / and /var because all of the logs go to /var. The theory is that if your box is attacked and somebody tries a denial of service, and your box logs itself it death, you will only run out of space on /var and the box will continue to run. If / held var and it filled up, the box would crash. In my personal experience, this problem has never happened.

Most will seperate out the /home partition. This is where users will store all of their files. Seperating this is nice because you can leave /home on your system when you reinstall FC and you won't lose any of your users personal files. I would dedicate at least 1/2 of your remaining space to /home.

2.) LVM is not required. If you manually partition, you don't have to set up LVM. I typically don't find the need to use LVM on my home based systems or most of my work based systems.

[aecordoba]

pparks1:
Thank you, for your quick answer.
But, how much space for each partition in my 40 GB HD? (For /, /boot, /var, /opt, /home, and so on.) What do you recommend?

Thank you, again.

[aecordoba]

I have a 40 GB hard drive to install FC5 in my Athlon XP 2500+ PC with 256 MB of RAM.
I want to use FC5 for software programming and I will install GNOME and KDE enviroment, and the PC will be used for 3 or 4 users.

1) Somebody can tell me how must I part my HD? (How much space I need for /, /swap, /boot, /var, /opt, /home and so on?)Or Where can I find that information?

2) Must I use LVM?

Thank you in advance.

[bob]

As far as LVM, no - when you custom partition, you can set up any other type you prefer. Swap should be roughly double your ram, but not more than 1 gig total. The rest is up to you. You'll need to make at least a root partition which can contain everything else or many people like to make separate /home partitions in case they want to upgrade or reinstall. The others /var, /opt, etc. are not really necessary unless you have specific requirements. Personally, I like to leave 5 gig for root, and the rest for /home. Actually, I REALLY like to leave at least 10-15 gig as 'unused' in case I want to play with another distro in the future.

[bob]

(merged threads since both are the same) - That's a 'no-no'