Partitioning Question

[ruscook]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 18:32 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:

> 10162006 2032 GMT-6
> 
> I have downloaded the alternate ubuntu cd.
> I am working on the partitions.
> This is what I have:
> 
> IDE1 master (hda)  - 203.9 GB Maxtor
> #1 primary 98.7  MB B f ext3 /boot
> #2 primary 10.0  GB   f ext3 /
> #5 logical 501.7 MB   f ext3 /swap

swap should be partition type linux-swap not linux and it's not a mount
point in the normal file system hierarchy (recreating /dev/hda5 as
partition type 82 will remedy this) .

> #6 logical 40.0  GB   f ext3 /home
> #7 logical 10.0  GB   f ext3 /second - this is for another OS to play with
> 
> 1) I have seen several examples of reiserfs for home and temp.

Got with what you prefer.

> 2) I have set this up correctly?
> 3) Do I need to manually create /tmp /usr /var?

No, the OS install will create them as directories under /.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> wade
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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