Partitioning my single drive

[tschmied]

I came across a great discussion regarding the partitioning of my single 10G drive on my DELL GX110:

http://www.linuxninja.com/linux-admin/x321.html

For those of you that have been down this road, would I simple use fdisk to "carve" up my hard drive or is there another tool I should consider?

Thank you

[fancypiper]

The Linux fdisk is the only program I really trust to partition correctly. I use it exclusively.

For a typical desktop I use 4 partitions, /, /boot, swap and /home.

[tschmied]

installation software, in my case 7.3?

[Loki3]

Red Hat 7.3 installation software has the choice of manual paritioning or automatic. If you chose manual you can use Linux FDISK or the more user-friendly disk druid. Even if you chose automatic paritioning you can edit or resize the paritions after red hat does it for you. Normally the parititons aren't made until later in the installation process.

_Loki