Re: [Hampshire] QTParted and /boot

hantslug@??? wrote:
> Help! I am trying to partition a hard drive using QTParted. I need to sort
> out what I am doing before I try at the command line.

For what it's worth, Parted works from the CLI, QTParted is a GUI version.

>
> I want my first primary partition to be /boot. But I am being asked to choose
> between ext3, ext2, fat32, fat16, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs and xfs. Most of
> these I can eliminate, but I am left with three, ext3, ext2 and xfs.

Almost certainly ext3 for anything but swap. There are alternatives but
you are unlikely to need them.

>
> I have no idea which of the three I want, and googling gets me nowhere. I am
> going to have the same problem with /proc, /var, /tmp etc. The only ones I
> know are /home (ext3) and swap (linux-swap).

Alarm bells rang when I read /proc there Lisi. Most users are unlikely
to need much more than /boot, /, /home and a swap partition. /proc
certainly does not require its own partition on account of it being a
pseudo-filesystem that runs in memory. Perhaps if you can give us an
indication of what you are aiming towards, we can advise accordingly?

Sean