I'm setting up a laptop for triple boot: WinXP; Debian Lenny with KDE
and lots of bells and whistles; Debian Lenny with Fluxbox and just the
essentials. I may swap one of those three for a different distro later.
Here's the planned layout:
hda1 -------- WinXP
hda2 -------- / for first distro
hda3 -------- / for second distro
hda4 -------- extended
hda5 -------- /home for first distro
hda6 -------- /home for second distro
hda7 -------- shared data partition
hda8 -------- swap
All data will be stored in the shared data partition, except for what's
in the dot files (e-mail, etc.) in the /home partitions. (I'm not using
a shared /home partition since I want to avoid config conflicts.) I have
limited hard-drive space.
Here are the questions:
-- How small can I make the /home partitions?
-- With data being stored in its own partition, what are the limiting
factors for /home partition size? I suspect it's e-mail attachments that
could bloat /home the quickest.
On the other hand, I could just let /home be a part of / for each distro
(as below) and back up the dot files regularly.
hda1 -------- WinXP
hda2 -------- / for first distro
hda3 -------- / for second distro
hda4 -------- extended
hda5 -------- shared data partition
hda6 -------- swap
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