Partition advice for redhat 9

From: mike (mike_uk31415_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 10/20/03 

Date: 20 Oct 2003 14:22:40 -0700

Hi

I have just got myself a shiny new computer with a 80Gb hard drive
and 512Mb of ram. I have used linux on various systems over the years
and although I am happy with most things - I always seem to screw up
choosing my partitions. Is there a standard way of partitioning a
drive of this size? Should I put things in a certain order?

What I eventually want is a system that dual boots into redhat 9 for
me and Windows 98 for the gf. I am perfect happy with getting it to
dual boot - just wondering if there is a prefered method for
partioning. I am thinking along the lines of

/boot - 50mb (Is this still partition still needed these days)
/swap - 1024mb (In the old days 2*physical ram was the norm but this
seems excessive)
/ - 20000mb - for the redhat core and any packages i may add on
/win - 20000mb - for windows
/home - whaever is left - for files and data on linux

When i use the partioning tool in redhat 9 the result looks a bit
messy - seems to go a little haywire if I use more than 4 partitions.

Any thoughts would be appeciated - thanks

Mike

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