It depends what you are going to do with SUSE. If you are going to install a lot of programs, you would want a bigger / partition. If you are going to do a lot of personal things (save pictures, music files, etc), you want a larger /home partition. 50GB is a little on the limited side, but you can work with it. As a starting point, I would suggest 20GB /, 1GB Swap, 29GB /home. You will get as many answers here about how to do it than there are Linux distros. It's kind of a personal opinion really.
I run Mandriva, and 20GB / is good for a decent install with some room left over for additional programs later. But I find if it's my daily use computer, I end up running out rather quickly. 40-50GB would be preferred. The 1GB Swap has never failed me in my machines. In my years of experience, swap is rarely used anyways, so I stick with 1GB. A good rule of thumb used to be make it equal or double to your RAM you have installed. Using ~30GB for /home is a decent start as well. I would prefer 40-50GB here as well. If you have other drives to store your personal data, then you are fine. Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:37, AliLasVegas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I want to install SuSE 11.3 to dual boot with WIN7. How much > space would I designate for Linux if I want to only use 50GB of Hard > Drive space? How would I go about sizing and partitioning the hard > drive...I have a 640GB HDD with Windoze on it and a 2TB drive almost > naked... > > Kindest Regards, > > Monti > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
