Re: Knoppix install - How do I?
From: Alex Monro (alex_monro_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:32:01 +0100
mark4asp wrote:
>
> I managed to get into qtparted but I'm a bit stuck now with the
> drive options.
>
> There are currently two drives, both NTFS, one is 5.77G
> (active), the second is 13.34G. 9G would suit me for program
> files if this was a Windows XP machine. Will 5.77G do for this
> computer? At some stage I will want to install mono and if it's
> anything like dotnet that will be absolutely HUGE.
>
> The format options are:
>
> ext3
> ext2
> fat32
> linux-swap
> ntfs
> reiserfs
> xfs
>
> Apart from FAT32 and NTFS I don't know what these are. I no
> longer use FAT or FAT32 I guess I need to create another
> partition for the swap and that the swap needs to be
> "linux-swap".
>
> But what of the other drives.
>
You haven't quite made clear if you want this to be a dual-boot install,
with an option at startup to choose Linux or Windows, or a wiping of
Windows and replacing it with linux. In the former case, you need to
think about how much space you want for Linux, and shrink the Windows
partition(s) to allow that.
> Q1: Do I choose EXT3 ?
>
> Most likely I will pick the most recent one and if it is a
> "journalling system" that sounds OK although I'm not certain
> what it is. I want this machine to integrate as well as possible
> with my Windows computers so that it's easy to swap data files
> between the two.
>
> The Knoppix command line says "Support for ntfs not implemented
> yet."
>
Ext3 is one of the most popular filing systems for Linux these days, it
includes journalling, which reduces the chances of losing data in an
unexpected shutdown (power failure etc.) and vastly speeds up the file
system check (fsck - very approximately analogous to the windows
scandisk). Its drawback is that it can be slightly slower for writing
data in some situations.
Another popular journalling FS is Reiser, which optimises space rather
better, and seems to be slightly faster for writing. It doesn't provide
as much redundancy in the data though.
> Q2: Should just reformat the first drive as EXT3 and repartition
> the second to get a 0.7G swap drive as well ? (2nd drive will
> then be 1 EXT3 and 1 linux-swap ? )
The swap partition rule of thumb says it should be twice the size of the
RAM, so 512MB should do for you, otherwise, that's probably the simplest
solution, and should be OK.
There are sometimes advantages in having separate partitions for /home
(to simplify backups) or /var (to reduce the risk of filling the file
system and making it impossible to login as root to fix it), but if you
are a newbie to Linux, it probably isn't worth worrying about until you
have more experience to know what you personally really need.
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