At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote:
I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up.....
Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with one big partition. Multiple partitions are for protecting various parts of your system from crashing if a service goes out of control and takes all the disk space. A separate home paritition will allow system services to continue running even though a user might take all available space for his files. If it's your own system and something goes wild, just boot from CDROM, fix problem and reboot again. With separate partitions you may be able to keep some services running while fixing a problem with single service, but if that situation will never happen (like on a home use machine) don't bother with so many partitions.
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