Subject: Re: Partitioning Scheme help...
To: Ben Bogart <bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/04/2001 00:55:35
Ben Bogart writes:
> 
> Here is what I have come up with for my scheme so far:
> 
> 2GB for NetBSD 
> swap:	256
> root:	150
> usr:	1594
> 
> 17GB for NT4 (least used OS with most used filesystem, NTFS4)
> c:	500
> d:	12000
> 
> 1GB for possible Linux distribution. 
> 
> I would appriciate any suggestions anyone would have.

Ok, so this is one MBR partition for NetBSD, two for Windows, leaving
one for Linux, meaning it would need to be an extended partition.
Or, you could have one for NetBSD, one for Windows (C:), one for Linux,
and an extended partition with D:, and Linux swap and/or /usr.

I would tend to put the "bootable" partitions first and make them all
MBR partitions.  This way all of your bootable partitions are under the
8GB limit of some boot loaders.  I don't think any of your operating
systems will have a problem with > 8GB though, so you might not care.
Something like:
	2GB == NetBSD
	<1GB == Linux ext2fs root
	.5GB == Windows C:
	rest == Extended
		<.25GB == Linux swap
		xxGB == Linux ext2fs /usr
		xxGB == Linux something else
		rest == Windows D:

I'm assuming you aren't hoping to install Windows NT on C: as 500MB seems
to small.  Also, if you want to share a FAT32 filesystem you should use
C:, and might want it bigger.

You could also share an ext2fs between NetBSD and Linux, as the latest
mbrlabel can find partitions in an extended partition.

-Andrew