Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:44 +, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games,

[gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread sean
I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Users, mainly

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
I would strongly recomend putting the home directory on its own partition. It then doesn't matter too much where you decide to mount it, although some broken applications may assume the Linux convention of using /home, so it is probably safest to preserve this and use a sym link if you want to be

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Fish
sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment.