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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:53:33 +0200
From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se>
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Subject: Best way to partition a small HD
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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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