What I did with my new Eee PC (160GB hard drive) was to create an 8GB root partition, 8GB for /tmp, 2GB for swap, and the rest for /opt (except for Win98 and a couple of OEM partitons that I wanted to leave there). /home is a symbolic link pointing to /opt/home.
/tmp is separate for a few reasons. One, if it fills up the system will still run. Two, there's never a need to back it up. Three, when I want to upgrade or switch to another distribution, I can re-purpose /tmp as the new root filesystem, and still have the old one available until the new one is fully configured and functional. I created /opt instead of /home because there are some things I want to preserve on an OS upgrade in addition to stuff in /home. My Ubuntu root partition is currently 43% full, so I'm happy with the choice of 8GB. Rod Bob Scofield wrote: > I'm planning to install Linux on my wife's computer because she does not like > Vista. I'm going to create a dual boot and will have 111GB for Linux. > > I am thinking of a simple partitioning system with separate partitions for: > > / > /home > swap > > My wife has 2GB of RAM, and I was thinking of making swap 4GB. > > My first question is how big should / be? On my desktop it's 8GB, and on my > laptop it's 13GB. I'm not anywhere near using up the space on either of > those machines. How about 13GB? > > I notice that my desktop has a separate partition for /tmp. Should I create > a > separate /tmp partition for my wife? If so, how big should it be? > > Is there any special difficulty in creating a dual boot system with Vista? > > Thank you. > > Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
