On Monday 09 May 2005 04:31 pm, Robert Yu wrote: | I'm perplexed about how I can divide partitoins in Linux. | | Can they be /var or /root in one parrtition [storing drivers, software | , and important OS info]? | | And what of home? | | Are both these partitions part of the main group if I decide to split | them in two??
Well, how you do it depends on what you prefer. Technically, you only need two partitions: partition one is the "/" partition (the root partition). It can contain everything concerning you system, your /var, your /boot, your /usr, etc., and the /home with the /home/username for your users. A Mandriva system with most all the bells and whistles will use up about 1.8G of the space on the "/" partition of the drive. partition two is the "swap" partition. The old rule of thumb was to make the swap twice the size of your installed RAM. The current argument seems to center around what the maximum size you will ever need to swap should be. I've settled on 256M, and some have decided that 128M is more than adequate if they have 512M of RAM installed. Those are all you need. However, most of us on the list will recommend that you make your /home partition separate, so that if you re-install you have a good chance of saving your settings which are contained under your usernames on that partition. Some of us will also place a separate /var, although that isn't nearly as common. I keep a separate /backup, on a separate drive even, in case my primary hd goes belly up. That would contain everything important that I download and maybe even a complete backup of my /home/username. A typical install of mine would have a 4 Gig "/", 256M swap and the rest of hda dedicated to /home, with a /backup on a smaller hdb--but I'm the paranoid type. If I have a dual boot (only one box with Winders at the moment, and I can't remember the last time I booted there), hda will also have the Winders partition and hdb will also contain a Fat32 partition of a couple of Gigs for backup of Windblows stuff. Clear as mud? e -------------------------------------------------------
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