What I generally do is make 2 or 3 12-20 GB partitions for root filesystems and allocate the rest as a /work partition. Multiple root partitions give you an easy way to try other distributions or upgrade to new releases without disrupting what you already have.
/work is where my personal stuff goes and I'll have various symlinks (mostly from my home directory) to places in there. I don't bother with a separate /tmp. If something uses a lot of space in there I could redirect that to /work as well, but it hasn't come up. Have fun! Rod On 10/05/2017 09:09 PM, Bob Scofield wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a new laptop for myself and a new desktop > for my wife. I know that for these computers I definitely want a > separate partition for /home. > > I notice that on my present Linux machines that I have a separate > partition for /tmp. And of course there are separate partitions for / > and swap. That's all the separate partitions I have. > > How important is it to have a separate partition for /tmp? I've got > 2G on the desktop I'm using right now. The partition for / is 15G. I > vaguely recall a discussion here years ago and people saying that /tmp > is on a separate partition to prevent / from being crowded. Does it > make sense to have a 2G /tmp? Does it make any difference if one does > not have a separate partition for /tmp but instead adds 2G to /? > > Thanks for you help. > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech