partition hd question. please help. thanx.

[feelexit]

i have a 40 gig hd, and already install red hat 8.0.

now , i want to isntall gentoo rc2.

red hat got 3 partitions.
hda1 /boot 106.93MB
hda2 / 20974.47MB
hda3 /swap 197.41MB

gentoo instructions said i also need 3 partitions for gentoo.
But, since I already have swap partiton. Do i still need to create another one for gentoo or they can share the same one.

and swap partition (no longer a 128 Megabyte limit) is said in gentoo installation guide. but mine is 197.41. what am i gonna do? Can i just leave it there?..

and if i need to make more partitons , and just name them hda4, hda5.. am i right?

[bsolar]

If I have undestood well you want to install Gentoo and keep RH.

Then you need only a root partition for Gentoo. You can use the same swap partition and use the old /boot. Make sure not to overwrite RH bzImage (that should be named different by default if I'm not wrong) and add the Gentoo entry in grub.conf (if using grub...).

About your swap size, the standard advice is 2xRAM but it's not written in stone.

[feelexit]

thanx alot.

I will keep RH, just in case i cannot install gentoo.

thanx for ur help.

[feelexit]

one more questions.

when i partition htem, should i make htem all primary or logical?

and i use # mke2fs -j /dev/hda3
to create an ext3 file system.

my hda1 file system type is "linux ext3"
but my hda3 file sytem type is "linux" only. I use same command, but didnt' get the same result. Is that a problem?

[bsolar]

As long as you don't make more than 4 partitions all of them can be primary. If you need to make more than 4 partitions you have to make some of them logical.

In the end you can decide.
I.e I have this

[Delphiki]

a file system type of linux is pretty general, so it can be ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, maybe others, so I wouldn't consider that in itself a problem as long as the file system works.
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Excellent..

[bsolar]