/ at 98GB, swap at 2GB. I wouldn't bother trying to be cleverer than that if not in a production server environment. I'd use ext3 formatting and tune the superuser only blocks ( tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda1 ) to 1% from the default 10.
But I'm sure a flamewar will be soon ensuing (: Steve On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:05:19 +1200 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am going to set up my main home desktop machine - essentially from > scratch but copying over a few useful things. I'm planning the disk > partitioning and have seen that some people will create a number of > partitions for their linux install - the usual swap, "/", /boot, and > /home but then various others too. I'm wondering about doing this > myself and looking for any guidance on what other partitions to use (and > why?), and in particular what sizes would be recommended for /, /boot > and these others. > > There will be 100GB available (in addition to another partition > specifically for data - spreadsheets, email etc) so space ought not be > an issue. > > Also, regarding partition formats. I'll not be having a dual boot > option this time (seldom actually booting to windows now - though will > have a couple of virtual machines) so can avoid NTFS partitions > totally. But given other machines in the house run windows wonder if I > need to continue with fat32 partitions for storing photos etc? What > would be the recommended format for such partitions sharing media files > or data to windows machines? Perhaps I could also bring all the data > into /home instead of being on a separate fat32 partition and it still > be writeable from windows machines? Or would keeping /home and the data > partiton separate be a better approach? > > Thanks for any feedback, > > Cheers, > Roger
