how to partition Fedora?

[php111]

Hi,

How do i partition Fedora? I know i would have the following
/
/boot
swap

What order should i partition it in? What are the recommendations for sizes with one 250 gig hard drive that i want the following on? Vista, FreeBSD, Fedora and OpenBSD.

[oz]

The partition order you mentioned above should work just fine.

I usually make my partitions something like the following:

/ (about 8 to 12 GB, ext3)
/boot (about 50 MB, ext2) you don't really need a separate /boot partition unless you just want one
swap (about 512 MB) you might not need one if you have 1GB or more of RAM
/home (about 8 to 12 GB, ext3) you don't have to have this partition unless you just want one

Of course the size limit really depends on what the user wants, as long as all partitions are at least big enough to hold all the files that will reside on them.

[php111]

The partition order you mentioned above should work just fine.

I usually make my partitions something like the following:

/ (about 8 to 12 GB, ext3)
/boot (about 50 MB, ext2) you don't really need a separate /boot partition unless you just want one
swap (about 512 MB) you might not need one if you have 1GB or more of RAM
/home (about 8 to 12 GB, ext3) you don't have to have this partition unless you just want one

Of course the size limit really depends on what the user wants, as long as all partitions are at least big enough to hold all the files that will reside on them.

Thank you oz. In Fedora is there an option for Disk Druid and if there is i use that and inside of Disk Druid is there a way to set GB and MB?

[oz]

I've not run Fedora since version 2 so I'm not sure what partitioner is currently used, but there will be one that allows you to set the partitions, the mount points, and the size. You do have to have free space (not partitioned) on your drive for this to work, though. If you don't already have free space, you'll have to free up some space by using a partitioning tool to shrink some of your current partitions, or let the installer overwrite some current partitions.

The Parted Magic LiveCD is a great tool for working with partitions, if you should need it:

Parted Magic

[php111]

oz,

Have you ever tried slackware and when was the last time you tried it? Is slackware more like command line or is it GUI?

[oz]

oz,

Have you ever tried slackware and when was the last time you tried it? Is slackware more like command line or is it GUI?

Yes, many times, last time about 2 months ago. Configuration in Slackware is much more command line oriented but it does come with a default GUI like the majority of distributions.