Linux Petition... wtf?!?

Question

I'm taking a linux class. I need to know what petitions I need for fedora. Also what sizes they need to be

Answer 1

Well first of all, what version of Fedora are you using? I think its on v7 but most people still use 4 or 5 in classrooms.



Also Fedora does have preset options for doing this based on what your going to be doing with the system, unless you actually need to do a custom install and choose the partition sizes yourself then go with one of those. It also depends on the size of your available hard drive. This stuff is more than likely going to be specified for you in class, sounds like your getting ahead of yourself.



There are many installation guides out there with general guidelines for each version of the OS (Fedora) but more than likely you will get this information from an assignment in your book or classroom.

Answer 2

I believe you mean 'partitions'? As in Hard drive partitions?



You average linux installation will need at least 2 partitions:

*A swap drive. It should be big enough at about 512MB (Although the opinions on this are divided.. Some will say 256MB is enough.. other's will go for more).

* A partition to install the OS on. This usually carries the ext3 filesystem and should cover the remaining disk space. It has the mount point '/'.



This is the simplest setup method. You can make it more robust and complex by adding different partitions for separate parts of the operating system. For example, this is the listing as it is used by the Arch Linux setup:



* 32 MB ext2 /boot partition

* 256 MB swap partition

* 7.5 GB /root partition

* /home partition with the remaining space.

Answer 3

Fedora is on 11 or 12. Partition.

in the real world

2x memory swap

the rest

/

maybe a separte one for /var /tmp /usr

depends some system use a centralizaed /usr

but with harddrive sizes today. Their no good reason not to put it all on / other the unfounded paranoia

on and in fedora, you usually need a seperate /boot partition because it likes to use setups that aren't compatible with grub/lilo such as encrypted lvm's.

Your probably want' to read the book or material assigned to you, cause their is no "perfect answer" their's probably one that your professor or your course material prefers for one reason or another that is more then likely out of date.

But most admins have their preference.

Answer 4

If you mean *partitions*, use the default ones Fedora gives you wnen you install, unless the teacher told you to use another setup.