can any body tell me how to make partitions while installing?

can we make partitions after installation?

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vikas sharma

which distro u r going to install ?

Generally 3 partitions req. in installation, and we cannot create partitions
after installtion.

1. /              -    (4-10 GB) whole OS   , u can use more
2. /boot        -   (100 MB)  Booting files and images, kernel loader etc.,
3. swap       -      It's size depends on your RAM, generally we make
partition double size of RAM we have.

During Installation it will ask for partitioning, If u want to install
Single OS as linux, choose automatic partition option there.  u will done
all.

Cheers -

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Vikas Sharma <vikas.sharma...@gmail.com>wrote:

Actually it is best to create /boot as ext3 and then rest of harddrive
to make a physical volume --> volumegroup --> and thenlogical volumes
as per rquirement.
most of linux distros now a days allow you to set that up during
installation.

LVM is more popular now a days as you can expand / shrink (bit tricky)
partitions on live systems without  down time.

hope this helps

regards

On Feb 14, 12:47 pm, vivek vyas <vivek3151...@gmail.com> wrote: