From: chuckm@canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro) Subject: Re: What's the best way to setup my 1.05GB Drive. Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 03:02:57 GMT
Fozzie Bear (fozzie@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote:
> My new Seagate drive arrives in two days time. It will be a Seagate ST11200N
> which has a 1.05GB capacity.
> What is the best way to set it up for Linux use?
I am using the same disk (and a 1542B), with no problems at all.
I used the DOS-based afdisk program from Adaptec to create the initial
partitions on the disk as follows:
- approx 500 MBytes primary partition with ext2 filesystem.
- two 16 MByte partitions near the center of the disk for swapping.
- the remaining 500 MBytes for a second ext2 filesystem.
I placed the swap partitions in the center for performance reasons,
but this is not really that important. You could place them at the
end. I also disabled the 1542's BIOS, since I don't use it.
Works for me!
Chuck.