Talk:Partition

= Time marches on = Not only does 5 gigs of swap no longer seem so remarkable, but this whole piece now seems a bit overlown in this age of SATA drives with GPT partitions. This needs more work than I have time for right now. 4dummies (talk) 10:46, July 12, 2016 (EDT)

= "Physical Partitions" = Quote Limits on partitioning

Most disks allow for partitioning, and for the common IDE system, you can have up to four so called "physical partitions" and possibly more "logical partitions". End Quote

This looks like some confusion to me! Does it speak of 4 drives or 4 primary partitions? Guess I might correct this one soon. --Linunix 03:56, Nov 4, 2005 (EST)

Good stuff. But... 5 gigs of swap? For an ultra-heavy-duty server, I take it? :) 10 gigs for root? I'm not sure if these are intended to be hard numbers, or if a note that they're merely round examples is needed, or if there should be an attempt at a Partitioning micro-HOWTO in here. Digiot 02:58, Apr 5, 2004 (EDT)

Supply better numbers as needed, I just pulled these out of the air for demonstration purposes. A 'how to partition' wiki entry seems appropriate, and I'll get on that right now.

BillGarrett 18:47, Apr 6, 2004 (EDT)


 * Yes, the seperate page is much better (5gig really sounds insane, what are you planning to do? massive video editing? 3d rendering? some huge heavy traffic web application server? ;) Why not remove the partition sizes completely on this page and just only rever to the seperate wiki page? It's just duplicate (and conflicting) info now I think Jor 19:14, Apr 6, 2004 (EDT)


 * Actually, I do work on massive video editing :) Anyway, article revised, feel free to hack on it or PG as you see fit. -- BillGarrett 21:45, Apr 6, 2004 (EDT)