On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:36:38AM -0500, Greg Trigg wrote: > > How large do I want my boot partition to be? At the moment it's 100Megs > with a root partition of 10Gig, a swap partition of 1.5Gig and a home > partition of 2Gig. If I should do something different, I would also > welcome that advice. I changed the boot partition to 'PrepBoot' and the > others as linux and linux swap partitions. > > I'm thinking that 100Megs is way too much, but I'd rather have that than > too little. > Partitioning questions usually get at least as many different answers as the number of people who reply (so, *at least one* favoured scheme per responder ;).
If this is for yaboot (so, not where the kernels live), 800KB is adequate (but I can remember a fedora installer that insisted on 800MB, and it didn't cause a lot of aggro to me). If this really is for /boot, 100MB should be fine. Personally, I can't imagine what you would use to fill up 10 GB, but that probably just shows my limited experience - on a non-debian ppc64 _multilib_ which defaults to 64-bit, 6GB is more than enough for me. Usually, I think putting /home on its own partition is good, but only because I have multiple installations (which implies at least two partitions for use as '/' in different contexts). Re Elimar's response, there is a place for separate /usr and /var, but it all depends what you are going to do with the box - for most people, fewer partitions are better than more, because it means you are less likely to run out of space. For me, the only reason to separate /tmp is if I'm going to put it on a tmpfs. ĸen (or Ken if you don't use UTF-8 !) -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce