On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Paul J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm putting a extra hard drive on my XP box which will be home to > Ubuntu. I've been doing dual-boots since the mid-'90s, but haven't > done a new Linux install for a few years. I would like to partition > the Ubuntu drive to facilitate future distro upgrades, if the > partition scheme makes any difference in that area. I remember > something about having a dedicated /home partition to make upgrades easier. > > I'm a Linux hobbyist and enthusiast, so I'm asking about a partition > scheme for a "home" user. I would only make /home a separate partition, and exactly for the reason you mention. My experience with /swap partitions is that it is needless headache. Just use a swap file. Similar with /boot. On a sever things should possibly be different, but on a home system, I doubt you'll let /tmp or /var/log fill up randomly. The main thing I wanted to comment on is that I've not really found a good reason to make /swap a separate partition, but I have found good reasons to instead use a swap file. Hope that helps, Jason _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
