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Subject: Best way to partition a small HD
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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:23:56 -0000
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I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD.

What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE
or later?

Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I
bother splitting the partition with / /usr and /var and swap?

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Gunnar Flygt
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