Scott; Are you setting up a server or workstation? If it's a workstation, try using the "simple" setup. If your hard drive on the workstation is big enough, setup a custom partition to store updates, downloads, and MP3's. I basically use the "archive" partition as a backup drive. If I ever need to re-install Linux, I don't have to download all the updates again, or my MP3's, etc. I just make sure not to format the archive partition when re-installing. The easiest way, is to resize the /home partition to a reasonable size and use the remaining for the /archive partition. If your setting up a server, use all the partitions that the install suggests, and reserve an extra hard drive as an archive for the same reason as above. While backups should be done regularly, restoring from the archive drive is faster than from a backup, and makes a great place to store those time-consuming downloads. Lanman On Monday 27 August 2001 12:13 pm, you wrote: > Just a simple question, how are most of you setting up your file systems > for install? > /boot > / > /swap > /usr > /var > /home > > or are you doing one big / > > Coming from BSD we did the first with all the different partitions. > > -Scott ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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