Judging by your present setup, it looks like you have 8gb ram, half of it being used as tmpfs; or am I wrong.
As for /tmp & /var, they would be under/on your / partition, as would /usr. That is why I was suggesting at least 10gb; you appear to be using about 4gb at present; that should leave enough room for any further additional applications you install in the future. Swap is not mandatory. :-) If you think you will need some, add equal to system ram, but I don't bother with swap on 2gb ram or more, as my usage of ram is pretty low, web browsing, movie watching, playing music, etc. The main reason for having separate / & /home is that I can re install the system if necessary, without having to re install all my personal files. (Of course, I still have backups.) :-) On 28/06/2012, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: >> Personally, I would re install if this is a personal system, it will >> make life easier in the future. >> >> If you do decide to; >> create a / partition of about 10gb (minimum) >> a swap partition (if you want one) > > swap would be almost mandatory, wouldn't it? > >> & the rest either as one partition for /home, >> or multiple partitions ( /home, /data, /movies, etc) > > What about /tmp? or is that not necessary now because of this new tmpfs > thingy? > > -- > "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people > who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the > oppressing." --- Malcolm X > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120628142513.GB853@tal > > -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cal36vgn72ddtznvktpm4hm68mxkrqqbsxcbmpsrr+2vsd5x...@mail.gmail.com