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<H2><A NAME="SECTION005103000000000000000">Examples of hard disk allocation</A></H2>
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I used to have a 109 MB hard disk. Now I am using a 330 MB
hard disk. I'll explain how and why I partitioned these
disks.
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The 109 MB disk I partitioned in a lot of ways, when my needs
and the operating systems I used changed; I'll explain two
typical scenarios. First, I used to run MS-DOS
together with Linux. For that, I needed about 20 MB of
hard disk, or just enough to have MS-DOS, a C compiler, an
editor, a few other utilities, the program I was working on,
and enough free disk space to not feel claustrophobic. For
Linux, I had a 10 MB swap partition, and the rest, or 79 MB,
was a single partition with all the files I had under
Linux. I experimented with having separate root,
<tt>/usr</tt><A NAME="1796"> </A>, and <tt>/home</tt><A NAME="1798"> </A> partitions, but there was never
enough free disk space in one piece to do much interesting.
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When I didn't need MS-DOS anymore, I repartitioned the disk so
that I had a 12 MB swap partition, and again had the rest as a
single filesystem.
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The 330 MB disk is partitioned into several partitions, like
this:
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The scratch partition is for playing around with things that
require their own partition, e.g., trying different Linux
distributions, or comparing speeds of filesystems. When not
needed for anything else, it is used as swap space (I like to
have a <EM>lot</EM> of open windows).
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<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR>
Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I>
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