Many people simply install everything under /.  But, I would recommend having a 
separate /home partition.  The main advantage to this is that when you go to install a 
later (or same) version of Mandrake, it won't automatically format the /home 
partition, which means any files that you have created, downloaded or otherwise stored 
there will still be intact. 
As to the size of the /home partition, that, of course, depends.  If you're like my 
son, who has stores hundreds of mp3 files on it, then you probably want it to be quite 
large! How big is the hard drive you are planning to partition and what are you 
planning to use the system for (as that can influence how to  size partitions).


Joe


On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:37:25 -0600
"Sean Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> 
> 

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