gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > > About your statement: "You don't need a separate /boot unless you're running > an odd filesystem for root." > > I don't want Debian to install the Grub bootloader onto the space occupied by > Windows bootloader. I had an unpleasant experience when I installed Microsoft > Windows 10 first followed by Debian Buster. I was unable to boot into > Microsoft Windows OS. That's why I dedicated a discreet partition for Debian > called /boot.
Fair enough. I wasn't considering a mixed boot environment. > Based on your recommendations, I only need the partitions named below: > > /root > /home > /swap > (optional) /var > > May I know why you provision 100GB of disk space to the root partition? More to the point, I'm allocating 100GB of a notional 250 to /home, and most of the rest to /. / will have everything in it except your personal data; /var, /srv, and so forth all fall under it. If you have 100GB total, I would put about 40G to / and 60 to /home. -dsr-