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Prtition sizes
Name: gardenair Date: November 10, 2005 at 02:50:32 Pacific OS: windows98 CPU/Ram: 500
Comment:
Durning Red Hat Linux installation there is a partition dialog dox .
Addition Size option
1---Fixed Size 2---Fill all space upto (MB) 3---Fill to maximum allowable size
Plz guide me about it that in which situation we use these options.
Also plz guide me taht can u do RAID5 \&| Mirring in IDE . I have 4 IDE of 40 GB . Thanks.
Name: Mad - Agro Date: November 11, 2005 at 04:10:10 Pacific
Reply:
as i said in a previous post- I'm no linux guru, but as i have done a couple of installs.
You have to have your 3 basic partitions: 1: Swap partition 2: / partition 3: /boot partition
The boot partition does not need to be more than 25mb, and i prefer to use double my ram size for my swap partition. The / partition can be made to fill the remainder of your drive's space. Make your swap and /boot partitions to be "fixed size" and make the / partition to be "Fill to maximum allowable size"
As far as RAID is concerned- i too couldnt master it
Mad - Agro
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Response Number 2
Name: nz_boy Date: November 14, 2005 at 13:31:52 Pacific
Reply:
newer versions of redhat or mandrake should have software raid options when formating.
if you have a newer MB you will also ahve a hardware raid option in the bios
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Response Number 3
Name: GordonBe Date: November 30, 2005 at 12:56:29 Pacific
Reply:
It will be enought swap / (root) /boot
For raid there are options in kernel and manual how to do it.
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