my new toy - what should I do?? [partitioning]

[jme]

I wasn't too sure where to post this as it's not really a 'request for help' or 'how do I ...', rather I am just interested in how others would setup their partition table in this situation. If I am wrong in posting here please move it! :p

Well, I have just got myself a new toy - a nice little Dell laptop - 500MHz processor, 64MB RAM (will be 256 by tonight) 6GB HD - which I am about to install Slackware 9.1 on.

I am quite confident in installing Linux - I have given most distros a go - but never on a laptop or on a harddrive of this size. I would like to know how you would all partition a 6GB harddrive to boot slackware - what partitions would you have? A really simple /, /swap, /boot or something more complex with /var /user/local etc., and what sizes would you make them all?.

Im just generally interested and looking for a bit of inspiration. :confused:

PS: I'm not trying to start a flamewar here! :D

Cheers,
Jme

[aNoob]

Various partitioning schemas you can find on the Slack's web site. Is really depending on what you want.
Mine is /,/swap,/boot but I have that on a 60GB disk. Once I had an /usr & /var partition as well (installed DB2 & mysql and data was in var for me).
Think what you wanna do and then you can choose a schema you may like.

[nugget15]

It should work, I put mandrake on like 2 gigs

[jme]

Thanks for your replies. I thought that I wouldn't have any problems as I have already got my webserver which is a P233 with 3.5GB HD running Debian 3.0r1.

I was more interested in the way that people would partition the 6GB HD for normal use to get the most out of the limited spec of the system.

Cheers,
Jme

:)

[MisterB]

If it were me i'd still use 3 partitions.

/boot 32m
/swap 512m (could easily get away with less)
/ (whats left)

with 256 meg of ram, slack and a light wm.
500 proc should purr quite nice.

[psi42]

Here's what I would do:


/boot 32MB
/home 1GB
swap 256MB
/ <Whatever is left>