I am going to install Slackware linux and I never had to deal with sizing of partitions before. I used debian before and with that distro i just made a / partition. With this distro I would like to separate the files. example /home / /usr /var If im using a 20gb hard drive what size should the partitions be? Thanks alot...

hey Frank don't worry about that "/home" space for storage your data it can be any . "/" this root must have space less than 1024 cylinder (size upto that point) remaining are as u need. ok bye if it is not work then email me.

> "/" this root must have space less than > 1024 cylinder (size upto that point) Unless you also create a /boot partition. Which then itself, will have to be below cylinder 1024. I think /usr should be the largest. /var is just for logs etc, so this should only have a few 100mb. /home: well, that depends on how big you want it, and how many users there are. If you do create a /boot, it should be about 10mb. All the rest goes to /. Sorry I couldn't be more specific.

Depend on what will your linux box's role... And there's a security concern too. I recommend that you should put about 30MB on /boot anyway, and if you linux box is: Workstation: Only a client, and no server service will be run, then you can put all in / for ease. Server: mount different mount point seperately, especially /var since most log will put in /var partition, and if you share the space of /var with /, once you encounter DoS attack and your partition is full, you cannot boot. Jon

/boot 32MB / 5020MB /var 1024MB swap 512MB For If you using 256. /home Wherever you left

It is very insteresting to see how other people do it. This is how I do it. I have a 28 G on my IBM ThinkPad. I installed Windows XP to the 1st 18G and format it as NTFS. Followed that, I installed Redhat 7.3, used Disk Druid to partition / ext3 8G, SWAP 500MB, selected Server installation. All works fine. Then, get back in Windows XP, and format the rest as FAT 32, so that both OS can share files. I have read those cylinder 1024. That seems to me it applies to thos old NT 4. Rember that NT 4 can go as far as 8 G. Any way, for Linux to work you need only the / and SWAP. For dual boot, you need to 1st partition as FAT32/NTFS, / and SWAP. Size does not seem to matter.