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    drive partition ratios

    I'm about to make a Suse install on a 10GB HD, how does everybody recomend I partition up the HD for the install.

    I'm looking at a relitively small to medium Suse installation sized , and I've been advised that my swap partition should be twice my ram (currently 256mb).

    I'm going to be using fat32 so that I can share the data portion of the HD with an earlier windows98 install (on a second HD) and really need to know how much room I can afford to allocate to data storage.

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    fat32 will not work for any sort of unix install because fat32 (and NTFS) do not support permission settings under Unix/Linux.

    To share the files you can make a fat32 partition which can be mounted and read with no problem between the two OSes, just Unix will complain that it was not able to set permissions when saving data to fat32

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    I'd say :

    /dev/hda1 - 512 MB swap
    /dev/hda2 - 7500 MB /
    /dev/hda3 - 1988 MB fat32
    Last edited by je_fro; 01-03-2006 at 07:31 PM.
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