Partitions and Their sizes

[jayanthd]

Hello!

I am new to Linux and also new to Fedora 17. I want to install Fedora 17 on my System. I've 67 GB free space, which I want to use for fedora os. I want to know what partitions I've to make and what should be the sizes of those partitions. I will be installing a lot of softwares like 3ds max etc.

Thanks

[SlowJet]

What is your system?
What partition do you have already?
Do you know how to list the partitions on the My System, to show us.

Free unpartitioned space is needed to install something on, not free space within another systems' partition.
There can only be 4 primary partitions on a diskdrive so to get more the forth one has to be an extended partition, on which logical partitions are created (up to 15 total for grub, more for grub2 but I don't know what makes that work.

Fedora uses a default partitioning of a small boot partition of ext4, and then an LVM2 partition that creates a PV-VG on which it creates an LV for the system called root and an LV for swap.
You will have aboit 60GB to use. That is a lot disk space unless you collect iso files, VM's or your own repos.

I don't know what grub2 will do the My System's boot. It used to make Fedora's grub boot up with a place hold for other systems to boot from there.

SJ

[jayanthd]

My partition are shown in the screen shot. In that I will be deleting ntfs partition I: to get 67 GB free space in my 500 GB HDD. I will be creating /, /boot, /usr, /swap, /tmp, /var. /home partitions. But I don't know what all other partitions I can create and what should be the size of the partitions including the partitions I mentioned.

Thanks

Jayanth D

[SlowJet]

Originally Posted by jayanthd

My partition are shown in the screen shot. In that I will be deleting ntfs partition I: to get 67 GB free space in my 500 GB HDD. I will be creating /, /boot, /usr, /swap, /tmp, /var. /home partitions. But I don't know what all other partitions I can create and what should be the size of the partitions including the partitions I mentioned.

Thanks

Jayanth D

No, I forbade it, use the default.
And you will be happy, grasshopper.

Now practice you Kid Foo.



SJ

[Gareth Jones]

Originally Posted by jayanthd

I will be creating /, /boot, /usr, /swap, /tmp, /var. /home partitions. But I don't know what all other partitions I can create and what should be the size of the partitions including the partitions I mentioned.

Don't bother creating a separate /usr partition – that hasn't been supported in Fedora for several releases now, and F17 has merged /bin, /lib etc. into /usr.

Also don't over-partition, as that just decreases the flexibility of your system. I'd go for space allocations of:
/boot – 1 GiB (for the option of pre-upgrade when F18 is released)
/ – 10–20 GiB (depending how much extra software you want room for)
swap – 2xRAM (for hibernate)
/tmp, /var – only if there is a particular reason for not leaving them on /, 5 GiB is plenty. Note that /tmp will be disappearing in F18 (to be replaced with a tmpfs mount).
/home – all remaining space

[jayanthd]

Thankyou very much Gareth. I tried your partition sizes and I successfully installed Fedora 17. Now all I want is some good book on Fedora 17 usage. Can you refer me to one?

Thanks

Jayanth D

[nonamedotc]

What do you mean by "Fedora usage"? Take a look at this Fedora setup guides on the top of the page (link here) for customization and general post installation tasks that people are fond of.

Cheers.

[jayanthd]

I mean any good book on using and doing things in Fedora 17.