Hi all, Thanks for all the great advice from everyone. Seems most people agree that /home should be a separate partition from /. I will also keep a /boot partition, mainly coz autopartition made it. More than that seems like too much work, mainly because I am the only user of the machine.
I like the /cds partition idea, mainly because I had to customise the install so that I would work with my crummy RAID controller. I NEED kernel 2.4.12 or greater. Thanks for the "cron mirror of /etc" idea too. Definate keeper. Thanks again. Cheers Peter Long On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:44:44PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2001 20:50, you wrote: > > > What do the experts do and why? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > Peter Long > > I like to use three partitions: > > - /boot: (~60Mb) I create it mainly because I'm an old fart and used to > creating this partion as the first one on the disk. With Grub (and I think > newer versions of LILO) you don't need to worry about this any more. > > - /: (700Mb to 4Gb) This is the root install. If I want everything on a > distro, then I'll need close to that 4Gb. My current "/" is using 1.5Gb. > > - /home: (all the space I can get!) This is my home directory where I > install all my personal stuff and even mirror my /etc (via a cron job). > When I upgrade or re-install, I tar up the old root and normally drop it in > here til I'm happy with the new install. That way I can always drop back > to my old install with a simple rescue boot and and un-tar. > > Good luck - Jon > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
