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This is a supplementary notes on Linux partitions. It is for those who are new to Linux and wishes to know more about how Linux configure their partitions. What are Partitions? Partitions are the logical divisions of a single hard disk. When you bought a new hard disk and installed into a computer, you can treat the whole physical disk as one partition or you may want to split into separate partitions. A partition is also a boundary specification to tell the computer where to start writing data and where to end. Without partition information a computer don't know where to start writing data, even if you use the entire physical hard disk as a single partition, you still need to configure the partition information. The partition information divide the hard disk into different numbered blocks so that the computer knows where the information stored. File System While partition information defines start and the end of a disk range, you'll need a file system to mark where is...

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...