On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:32:53PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > Matthew Jackson wrote: > On it I have partitioned it into these: > >/boot 250mb > >/tmp 750mb > >/var 1gb > >/ 10gb > >/usr 20gb > >swap 1gb > >/home remainder ~40gb > > > I think you might find that /boot is about 10 times larger than > necessary, and / is about 50 to 100 times what you need for a > workstation.
I know what the reasons are for using seperate partitions, but I just can't bother. Linux isn't Unix, it's closer to being Windows than it is Unix. It's a crummy desktop O/S on commodity Intel whiteboxes. Just use one big giant / part and back up your data. Who cares about system files. Get over yourself :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]