JoeHill wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:53:31 -0500
Miark got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
I make root 6GB, and give the rest to /home.
Unbelievable, eh? That wouldn't even hold a default install of XP, and that's
with *no software installed*. You'd be getting warnings about 'drive full'
within hours.
I've got several games and a ton of software installed (5 different DE/WM's),
and I've still only managed to use 8.5 GB of my /.
'Course, no KDE always helps ;-)
I would have at least three partitions
/
/opt
and
/home
On mine these are
/ - 6.2G
/opt - 16G
/home - 16G
- this is because I do my own installs into /opt and so that it remains
after a complete
install, and similarly for /home.
Another partition I have on a second drive which is purely a personal
thing is
/media
for storing films, music or whatever that aren't getting backed up, so I
don't have
too much to backup from /home (and of course I don't care if they are
lost). I also
using it for making DVD images for burning.
Finally on that same second drive I have a
/backup
which is where all my backups go from /home, /opt, /etc (for
configuration backup) etc
so that I am backing up daily to a second drive, and weekly to a DVD
(which is imaged
on /media).
But of course those last two are just what I do :-)
HTH
Neill
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