[OLUG] partitioning the HD

[Vincent]

> 
> Unless something has changed,  /boot  will need to be inside the first
> 1024 cylinders (8Gb) of the first disk.  I always make a seperate
> partition for  /boot  and Redhat's Disk Druid will automatically try to
> place it in the first 1024 cylinders.  If it can't, I'm sure it will
> produce an error.
> 
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Maybe this will help:  Here's a copy of fstab and the output of "df -h"
from a box which has a 12Gb ide drive (hda) and is running both linux
and win98.

*df -h*
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda14            741M  193M  511M  27% /
/dev/hda5              23M  5.2M   16M  24% /boot
/dev/hda7             1.4G  565M  842M  40% /home
/dev/hda13            3.8G   83M  3.5G   2% /home/ftp/pub
/dev/hda8             1.3G  233M  1.0G  18% /home/ftp/pub/win32
/dev/hda1             1.2G 1010M  187M  84% /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda11            152M   12M  132M   9% /root
/dev/hda12             99M  383k   93M   0% /tmp
/dev/hda6             2.4G  1.2G  1.1G  51% /usr
/dev/hda9             1.2G  227M  895M  20% /usr/local
/dev/hdc2             3.8G  2.0G  1.6G  56% /home/ftp/pub/linux
//CSM01/Public         39G   31G  7.8G  94% /mnt/CSM01/Public
//CSM01/Home           39G   31G  7.8G  94% /mnt/CSM01/Home
//CSM01/wwwroot        39G   31G  7.8G  94% /mnt/CSM01/wwwroot
/dev/scd0             412M  412M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom

*fstab*
/dev/hda14              /                       ext2    defaults       1
1
/dev/hda5               /boot                   ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda7               /home                   ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda13              /home/ftp/pub           ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda8               /home/ftp/pub/win32     vfat    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda1               /mnt/hda1               vfat    defaults       1
2
/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660  user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0
0
/dev/cdrom1     /mnt/cdrom1     iso9660  user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0
0
/dev/hda11              /root                   ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda12              /tmp                    ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda6               /usr                    ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda9               /usr/local              ext2    defaults       1
2
/dev/hda10              swap                    swap    defaults       0
0
/dev/hdc1               swap                    swap    defaults       0
0
/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy     vfat    
user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/hdc2               /home/ftp/pub/linux     ext2    defaults       1
2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults       0
0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 0
0

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