-=> I have always wondered why the default installation of -=> mandrake or other distro's, partitions your drive into all -=> these different partitions, if you choose the auto allocate feature. -=> -=> For example, different partitions for /home and /var and / -=> -=> I have always just used the one partition for everything - -=> at what stage does the partitioning of the drive start to matter??
I think, with Mandrake at least, it partitions into swap (roughly 2 x physical memory) and splits the rest between /home and /. Personally, for a small system or workstation, I partition 100Mb to /boot (old habit from the lilo <1024 cylinder days), swap as above, and the rest as /. I guess partitioning the filesystem specifically for /usr, /usr/local, /opt (useless !!!), etc. is when you are running LVM and raid arrays, or the system is in heavy use... Other than that, I guess it's personal preference. Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
