Jag, While there is no hard and fast rule for partitioning (apart from having a separate swap partition), in my opinion it's best to separate /home /boot and /. This allows for easy movement between upgrades.
Sample layout Boot: Ext2 : 500 MB (this should be MORE than enough, unless you intend to install many kernels. ext2 filesystem since journaling isn't required) Swap: Thumb rule is twice of RAM. I've gotten away with less (I have about 2 GB of RAM). / : 40 GB /home (ext3): the rest of the space or alternatively /home :20 GB Rest can be split into categories like /music /movies based on the size of your music and movie collections Regards, Ritesh On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, consoleart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, Good day !!! > > Can someone suggest a best partitioning method for installing linux. > > I dont want tools that are used for partioning, but what file systems > to use and how much to be given for each drive,(I have a 240 GB hard disk). > > how much to give as SWAP / root etc., > > Regards > Jag > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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