-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:27:40 -0400, HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions & backups: >On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 +0000 >John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> >> Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one >> task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into >> practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then you can >> use each spare partition for what ever task you like. >I think this is why the traditional setup, AFAIK, has always been >somewhere close to one /, one /swap, and one /home (sounds like a George >Thorogood song...). Keep it simple. Especially since in Linux, there is >really no problem with even running apps from yer home dir; my WM even >runs from ~/. > >I wouldn't argue against perhaps leaving 5 or 10 GB unpartitioned for >future use, but having too many partitions can get confusing for the >average user, if any of us can be called average ;-) I would choose a middle ground between what John and Haywire are saying in case I had that many GB to play with and that big folders around: you could put /home on one large partition, /home/username/music on another partition and/home/username/videos on a 3rd partition, etcetera. In every day use they would all be transparent as part of one /home/username folder, but avoid the permissions juggling that John has to go through. In a similar vein I made a separate partition for /usr at one time, but with all the programs I am trying the spare room is going fast. So at one point I may put /usr/lib, /usr/share and/or /usr/X11R6 on separate partitions. This is another reason that Linux is much better than Windows: here we have one tree; in winblose I used to have partitions C:\ upto S:\ on 3 different HDs & 2 CD player/burner. Once you`re done setting it up I find it`s much easier to navigate. Regards, =Dick Gevers= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/mXGQwC/zk+cxEdMRAh+lAKDV5XiZk2NUVrkzRcoB8t+WB60PBgCgwqwK lU2NE8kYNxZlN2yWlvqZs4g= =07Za -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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