On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
Gauland, Michael wrote, On 26/02/09 11:35:
I finally got tired of scrounging for disk space, and bought a new hard
drive for my laptop. Now, I’m puzzling over how to partition it. My current
drive has separate partitions for Microsoft Windows (which I only admit to
here out of sense of honestly, but I do occasionally need it for work),
swap, /, and /home. As I recall, this arrangement was adopted in ancient
times (oh, two or three years ago), and may not have been the best choice
even then.
First Question: What’s the current ‘best practice’, partition-wise, for a
new GNU/Linux install?
One boot partition of 100-200 MB
One partition for windows.
One big partition as a PV
Usually one partition for root / and a different one for /home, then
you can clobber / and drop a new distro in with a new filesystem and
not clobber home
Swap usually 2 * ram, although disk is _so_ very very very much slower
than ram these days and ram is getting so much larger. I'd perhaps
drop that to swap == sizeof ram.
I used to do a seperate partition for /usr/local, but I tended to need
to rebuild everything in /usr/local anyway on moving to a new distro.
I try static link / stash all the dll's with the stuff in /opt so in
principle it should survive a new distro so in principle it could go
in /home or in its own partition.
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