Here's how I have my system set up: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 746464 62888 645020 9% / /dev/hda5 4960476 1802788 2901456 39% /usr /dev/hda6 1492912 53176 1362628 4% /var /dev/hda7 1492912 130180 1285624 10% /home /dev/hda8 746432 16472 691408 3% /tmp /dev/hda9 1492912 274780 1141024 20% /opt /dev/hda1 20472816 11712736 8760080 58% /windows This is on a 45GB drive, with room to spare in LVM to extend out file systems as I need to. I personally wouldn't mount windows under another filesystem such as becoming /usr/windows. The sources I've looked at said to mount it as it's own separate partition. There are other alternatives such as either buying another disk specific to Linux, or to remove the apps and data you don't use on the windows partition and to reduce said partition and reallocate some of the space to Linux. Shawn On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:04:14 -0600 "Hamlet D'Arcy" <hbdarcy at stthomas.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks for the previous help getting my FAT32 partition to mount at > startup. > All the talk on the list about partitions has created some more > questions though... > > I'm curious what you think would be the best way to set up my mount > points. I currently have a dual boot Win2K and Redhat Linux > installation. My drive has three partitions: > A 5 Gig NTFS for the Win2K OS, > A 5 Gig NFS for Linux, > and a 20 Gig FAT32 for Win2K applications and data files. > > I use the FAT32 to install all my applications and any data files I > want in Windows. The original intention was to be able to reformat and > > reinstall the Windows without wiping out my non OS files. It is FAT32 > because when I set up the system FAT32 was all Mandrake supported, but > > it looks like my RedHat can see the NTFS partition now as well. >