On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:37 pm, you wrote: > What is a good partition scheme for a single > hard drive to have Linux installed on it? Would > it be best to have a swap partition and a single > partition for everything else, to have an > additional one for /home, or to have one for all > the directories directly below root? > > -Sean Robinson this is like asking, what is a good choclate. there are lotsa of good ideas, and without MUCH more knowledge about you, what is your favorite color, what kind of car do you drive, how much risk you can stand in your retirement investments,,,, etc it's always good to remember too that on this list, "there are no answers, only opinions, some just happen to be correct or helpfull" That said, (imho) most folks decide to dual boot and the MS win boot likes to be in the first partition on the first hard drive on the first IDE channel (hda1), then depending on available space, upgrade frequency, number of OSs. for myself, I have MSwin and then / for 4 gigs, swap /490meg (512 meg ram) /home for 4 gigs. ( I screw with a litlle video processing and CD burning and by having /home seperate, I don't loose that as I screw with the OS, As long as I don't format that partition. Some folks keep a "/var" and a "/var/html" if they are using the box as a server. Like I said, lots to consider, and each box and useage is different.
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