IMO, How to set up partitions should depend mainly on what the machine will be used for. For desktop machines, unless there are some special requirements (like routine backups onto a space-limited medium, for example), the way you've been doing it until now is fine.
I usually put a small (50 - 75mb) /boot partition first on the disk, followed by a swap partition, followed by a large / partition. Use a journalling file system like reiserfs, and you'll be reasonably safe from the risk data corruption in the event of a crash. Cheers, Brent On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:06:32PM -0600, Mathieu Jobin wrote: > Hello > > I going to buy a new harddrive since I dont have much space. Over the past few > years I've stop separating my harddrive doing only 3 partitions. > > 1- Linux root > 2- swap space > 3- windows > > for much simplicity and because I really hate when some process die because of > /var has not enough space or something like that. I know that everybody have > their opinion, such as putting the swap space in the middle of the drive, > between /usr and /home to let the harddrive going to space without effort. > Other peoples may prefer putting the swap space at the immediate beginning of > the drive. saying swap have to be faster, and faster is the beginning of the > drive. > > I think it would be very interresting to discuss it over the list, especialy > for newbie people reading the list to get all those opinion in one place, > such as a mail or a clug webpage ;) > > I now thinking buying a 120gb because its cheaping per gb. > And think about creating those partitions.... > > /tmp 1gb > swap 1gb ( i dont mind on a 120gb) > /var 5gb > / 10gb > /home 20gb > /usr 20gb > Win2K 20gb > Test 10gb (just for trying different OS/distrib) > Data 30gb (extra data movie and music (Fat32)) > > any other idea ? > > thanks for you input. > > Mathieu > > -- > <Neil> Using spaces for indentation is like using tabs for carriage return.
