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If you a looking for a tool to re-partition a drive that is already in use (and you don't want to lose the data on the partitions), you could use the proprietary (but very good) ~PartitionMagic, or the [Free] tool parted(8).
For a thorough explanation of partitioning, read the [Linux Partition HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/].
-You may also want to read a [mini howto on swap | http://www.xenotime.net/linux/swap-mini-howto.txt] someone wrote.
+You may also want to read a [mini howto on swap | http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc
/swap-mini-howto.txt] someone wrote.
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-Here are some recommendations for your drive partitioning scheme:
+You can set up partitioning as complicated or as simple as you like. The simplest setup is a swap partition (size as twice your RAM up to about 1GB) and the rest of the drive as a single partition mounted on / .
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Here are some other
recommendations for your drive partitioning scheme:
__<tt>hda1</tt>: <tt>/boot</tt> (32-64MB)__:
Historically [LILO] could not read past 1024 cylinders, so people created their first or second partition as <tt>/boot</tt>.
