Roger Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm about to become a new Gentoo user, after several years of using Mandrake.
> I was very happy with Mandrake up to v8.x, but since 9.0, there have been a
> couple things that have bothered me about it enough to make the switch. Now,
> for some time I've used the same partition table, which is:
>
> / 797 MB ReiserFS
> /swap 250 MB
> /usr 4.8 G ReiserFS
> /usr/local 1.9 G ReiserFS
> /var 996 MB ReiserFS
> /home 10G ReiserFS
> /mnt/media 31 G ReiserFS
> /mnt/arc 6.4 G ReiserFS
[...]
My advice to new users is to NOT partition like that, as it will lead
to flexibilities later on -- if you're not back at this list in
2-months asking how to "resize partitions", then I'd be surprised ;-)
Instead partition simply like this:
swap -- 2x RAM (or debate it with other users till you go blue in
the face)
/home -- make it as large as you think you need for *your* specific
data, also make sure you're prepared to backup /home
/ -- the rest of your disk or less (be greater than 2GB at
least).
Another solution is to use a volume manager such as LVM which will
let you partition flexibly.
Matt
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