Hi, I am going to set up my main home desktop machine - essentially from scratch but copying over a few useful things. I'm planning the disk partitioning and have seen that some people will create a number of partitions for their linux install - the usual swap, "/", /boot, and /home but then various others too. I'm wondering about doing this myself and looking for any guidance on what other partitions to use (and why?), and in particular what sizes would be recommended for /, /boot and these others.
There will be 100GB available (in addition to another partition specifically for data - spreadsheets, email etc) so space ought not be an issue. Also, regarding partition formats. I'll not be having a dual boot option this time (seldom actually booting to windows now - though will have a couple of virtual machines) so can avoid NTFS partitions totally. But given other machines in the house run windows wonder if I need to continue with fat32 partitions for storing photos etc? What would be the recommended format for such partitions sharing media files or data to windows machines? Perhaps I could also bring all the data into /home instead of being on a separate fat32 partition and it still be writeable from windows machines? Or would keeping /home and the data partiton separate be a better approach? Thanks for any feedback, Cheers, Roger
