Fedora 18 Configure Disk Partitions Manually
What you need to know about Linux Partition? All Linux system requires a minimum of 3 partitions, they are /boot (use booting up the system), /swap (use for virtual memory) and / (the root directory contains the entire system). The following are the recommend disk size: /boot - about 500MB is sufficient /swap - traditionally it is recommended to have twice the size of your RAM size. However, with sufficient RAM in most system. The swap file is hardly use. I would recommend 4GB is sufficient for most system. / - root directory contains the entire system so you should commit the rest of your hard disk space to it. If you want to separate the system folder with user data, you can configure and additional mount point for user data such as /home . You can allocate whatever hard disk space necessary for user data. Partition Type In Fedora 18, there are 3 different types of partition. They are " LVM ", " Standard Partitions " and BTRFS . BTRF...