Linux Partition HOWTO
Tony Harris
version 3.1, 11 June 2000
(added Partitioning with fdisk). All other sections written by
Kristan Koehntopp
Linux Partition HOWTO (version 2.4, 3 November 1997)
This Linux Mini-HOWTO teaches you how to layout disk space for
your Linux system. It talks about disk hardware, partitions,
swap space sizing and positioning considerations, file systems,
file system types and related topics. The most recent version of
this document is here.
- What is a partition?
- Related HOWTOs
- Device numbers
- Device names
- How many partitions do I need?
- How big should the partitions be?
- Placement of swap partition
- notes about fdisk
- Four primary partitions
- Mixed primary and logical partitions
How to rebuild a deleted partition table
- Fragmentation
- back-up Strategy