On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You really don't need the /boot, /var and /usr partitions if you intend > to use the computer for your personal uses. These partitions are of more > use when you want to use a machine as a server. If he isn't a distro hopper, what you say is okay. But if he intend to install Arch Linux, a separate /boot partition is must. Just 32 MB will suffice. But it should be one of the primary partitions. /var is where all your log files go. Normally servers only need separate /var. But its not a problem even if you have it. I have separate partitions for /, /boot, /home, /var, /usr, /tmp, and of course /swap > The swap space is traditionally > recommended to be two to two and a half times the RAM. But for most > usual applications, when you have 1 GB RAM, 1 GB swap should be good > Now with so much of RAM, 2x rule is obsolete. But if you want to enable hibernation (suspend to disk), your Swap partition should be able to hold whatever you were holding in the random access memory. So, if your RAM is 1 GB or more, give just 15% more space to /swap.
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