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.
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