On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:08:19 -0800, Kanthi wrote:

> Hi ALL,
>
> I am Linux Newbie.
>
> I want to know the details of what are the required partitions for
> starting LInux installation, basically i go for / , /boot and swap.So
> all the /bin /sbin are automatically created by installation
> itself,this way i understand it would be difficult to recover if the
> system crashes and we lose all the data.
>
> I want create individual partitions at the time of installation itself,
> but do not have the idea of what are the min and max size for each
> partition.
>
> Hope you got my question ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Kanthi Kiran.

/ (that is root) is the only required partition. A swap partition is a
good idea. Beyond that - however you want to st it up. It is probably a
good idea to put /home on it's own partition.