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Which format to use in primary partition for Linux?

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Dan

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I have a 46GB IDE hard drive partitioned as follows:

4GB for C: Has Win98SE active primary partition
1GB unallocated primary partition
40GB in an extended primary partition with logical sections: D, E & F. Win2K is on D.

I'm going to use Partition Magic to format the unallocated partition for Linux. I seem to have 2 choices: Linux Swap or Linux Ext2. Does it make a difference which format I use?

I plan to install Corel's version of Linux and obviously want to have a triple boot option: Win98SE, Win2K and Linux.
 
Actually you're going to need at least two partitions: swap and root ("/&quot😉. Swap will be formatted as, well, swap 🙂, and the other partitions will be formatted as ext2.
 
Damaged: Thanks for the tip. What size should I make the two partitions? (When it comes to Linux, there's nobody greener than me.)
 
Swap I'd say somewhere b/w 128MB and 256MB. root I'd say at least a gig, but you shouldn't need much more than 2GB, depends on what all you want to install and run though. But to learn and play around with 2GB should be fine.
 
Thanks again. I'll set that up and see if I can get the OS installed. Then, no doubt, I'll be back with more questions. 😀
 
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