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Re: Case 309861: Partitioning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Sep 25 15:45:49 2002
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:45:40 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Are there any general guidelines as to how a hard drive should be
>> partitioned (e.g. rules like swap = 2 x memory) to install Athena 9.0
>> (on a SUN machine)? I keep getting out of space errors (on automatic
>> partition) and I have a 4 GB hard drive. I've tried custom installation
>> and manual partition but I have next to no clue how big each partition
>> should be and what partitions I should have/make. The procedure is also
>> a bit fuzzy. ( I don't think I'm quite doing it right)
The installer does provide some help for the custom partitioning
section:
The rest of the installation assumes that
partition 1 is swap (at least 512MB recommended);
partition 3 is AFS cache (256MB recommended);
partition 0 is / (including /usr and /var) and is at least 8GB,
but is normally the entire rest of the disk
All you need to create is those three partitions. a 4 GB hard drive is
a bit smaller than we have in most of our Sun hardware right now (I
think they were primarily in the Ultra 10s we removed from clusters this
summer). If you have a disk the installer recognizes, taking the
default partitioning should get you something that works.
If you don't have a disk the installer recognizes, the partitioning
below should work (the numbers might be slightly different; this was
generated on a disk with a SUN4.2G label, which the installer will
recognize).
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 3203 3.30GB (3204/0/0) 6920640
1 swap wu 3204 - 3583 400.78MB (380/0/0) 820800
2 backup wu 0 - 3879 4.00GB (3880/0/0) 8380800
3 unassigned wm 3584 - 3878 311.14MB (295/0/0) 637200
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
Garry
