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Question: What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install Linux?
What command can you use to review boot messages?

Answer: USR.OPT,ROOT,BOOT,SWAP,

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Question: What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install Linux?
What command can you use to review boot messages?

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USR.OPT,ROOT,BOOT,SWAP, Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Arjun Singh Rana | Date: 6/23/2008 |

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In IDE hard disk 63 partitions.
In scsi hard disk 15 partitions

demesg or /var/log/message Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: dinesh rawat | Date: 6/24/2008 |

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1. One (i.e., /)
2. dmesg Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Gowrishankar Rajaiyan | Date: 6/24/2008 |

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1. Three Partition.
boot partition, swap partition and root partition, these are the minimum partitions to install the linux.
2. dmesg or /var/log/messages Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Neal | Date: 6/26/2008 |

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1. two partitions
root(/) and swap
2. dmesg and /var/log/messeges
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Answered by: Suhas Joshi | Date: 7/18/2008 |

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Minimum 3 three partition need Boss
root-your wish(min2.5GB)
boot-128 enough
swap-twise of ram size Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Bose | Date: 8/3/2008 |

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Three Partition are needed these are root,boot,swap.
# vi /var/log/messages
# dmesg Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: davender chamoli | Date: 8/18/2008 |

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Linux can be installed on two partitions, one as / which will contain all files and a swap partition.

dmesg

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Answered by: sanjit kr das | Date: 2/26/2009 |

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/,/boot & swap are the minimum partitions required to install Linux. Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Vishal | Date: 4/2/2009 |

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Well You only need 2 partitions to install Linux one is the root partition / and other is the swap partition ,you can install linux without creating /boot ,it will automatically created under /
dmesg will show you the logged messages at boot time .most information is about detected hardware at boot time Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: rashid | Date: 5/16/2009 |

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To install linux we have to make min 3 partition , i.e; Root ,Boot & Swap. Root contains the largest area in a hard disk as its capability, Boot can be minimum of 512 mb& swap size depends upon the size of ram attached in your computer , its mininum size will also be equal to size of RAM of max to its double size.

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Answered by: Durgesh Tomar | Date: 9/6/2009 |

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2 partition is compulsory
root (/)
swap
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Answered by: pankaj jain | Date: 9/10/2009 |

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#our work can be done with only 1 partition..that is /
but it is recommended that swap and boot partition should also be made.
#dmesg Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: ghanish | Date: 9/27/2009 |

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Even swap is not mandetory, its just to improve the overall performance.
You can even install linux with just one partition i.e / Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: pravin salgond | Date: 10/25/2009 |

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Basically while installing Linux we need to create two partition first one for / and second one for swap Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Gunjan | Date: 11/1/2009 |

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linux 4 partition
1.boot
2.home
3.swap
4. / Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: ranjeet | Date: 11/10/2009 |

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Minimum 3 three partition need Boss
root-your wish(min2.5GB)
boot-128 enough
swap-twise of ram size Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: pritam dash | Date: 11/12/2009 |

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/
/boot
partitions needed for installation of linux.
swap partition not necessary in sufficient RAM system. Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: varun kala | Date: 12/10/2009 |

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1. Minimum two partitions need to install Linux
root(/) and swap
root-(Min 2.5GB)
swap-(size RAMx2 but maximum 4GB)

2.cat dmesg and /var/log/messeges Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Atul Kumar Rai | Date: 12/12/2009 |

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According to linux and my knowledge we need 3 basic partitions to install linux.
1. root (/)
2. boot
3. swap
Note: swap must be double the size of RAM u shall use in ur system. Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: KING | Date: 1/23/2010 |

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To install linux on your system
need make only two Partitions
1)/ and 2)boot
dmesg and /var/log/messeges

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Answered by: M.Venkata Rami Reddy | Date: 1/30/2010 |

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Only 1 Partition is required to install Linux /
Recommended Are :-
1. /
2. /boot
3. swap Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Rajesh Kumar | Date: 3/5/2010 |

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compulsory 2 partitions
1.swap
2.root (/)
Optional
3.boot

Next one is
dmesg Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: kiran kumar | Date: 4/11/2010 |

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1 /root
2 /swap
3 /usr Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: gaurav | Date: 4/11/2010 |

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hii i am eng student in cs branch . i can install linux with 2 partition named "/" and "swap"... Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: milan | Date: 4/15/2010 |

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only /, /boot will be created autmatically and swap is recommended,

grep -i "boot" /var/log/messages Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Vishal Joshi | Date: 4/19/2010 |

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only one partition is require to install Linux /.

boot mesg - dmesg Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Govind Tadhiyal | Date: 5/1/2010 |

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a. Minimum two partition.
1. Root
2. Boot
b. vi /var/log/message
dmesg Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: daveender chamoli | Date: 5/5/2010 |

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It is basically 3 required.
1]/
2]/boot
3]swap.
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Answered by: yogesh kolte | Date: 8/10/2010 |

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Minimum number of partition is 1 i.e. /
though it is better to have swap and boot partition created. Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Pawan | Date: 9/6/2010 |

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min 2 partitions is / & swap.but recovery perpose /boot must
so we need to go for min 3 partitions which are /boot,/ and swap Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Sahil | Date: 9/9/2010 |

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2 partitions is / & swap is required but for recovery purpose /boot is must.
So we need to go for minimum 3 partitions which are /boot,/ and swap. Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Sakshi Modi | Date: 4/24/2016 |

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