On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:33 +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> houghi wrote:
> > 
> > My personal first concern would however still go out to a separate /home
> > 
> 
> for me, a separate /var is as important as a separate /home, but then, I 
> came from a solaris on server background where you tend to create more 
> partitions.
> 
> I've never used the default suse partitions, and see it a sign of 
> newbieness to have just / and swap, and when I first installed SuSE it 
> actually made me wonder whether it was a serious OS!
> 
> I'd say for automagic partition sizing
>       /var = minimum 256MB rising proportionately to maximum 2G, depending on 
> disk size
>       /home = minimum 64MB rising proportionally with disk space maximum 50% 
> of disk
> 
> *only* if there's no room for these partition sizes should they be 
> omitted - e.g. if say installing onto a 1GB flash memory card or something.
> 
> I'd also like to see an advanced option for "noatime".
> 
Ah. Partitioning schemes... just like belly buttons, everyone has one.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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