On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:41 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I mean, I know how to partition my HD. What I want to know is how to have a > home partition, how to make Mandrake install to recognize I am selecting a > particular partition as home partition. Also, how large should it be? I > suppose that will be my /home/user partition, will it not? I have Mandrake > installed in two machines. In one I gave it 10 Gig space, and in the other > 6 Gig, only one partition in each aside from the swap partitions. and > lastly, is it advisable to have any other partitions? > Create an extra partition to use for /home. How big depends in part on how many users there are on your system. In our small home lan there is a certain amount of home space used for backing up important data. My /home is 6.6 GB, of which 5.1 GB is in use.
It will show up in your directory tree as /home, with subdirectories for every user you create. To set it up, during install, elect to do a manual (maybe expert?) partitioning - I can't remember the exact wording. You will then get the opportunity to say which partition is to be your /home directory, which is /, and any others you have decided to set up manually (I don't bother with any more, some people do). The advantage to having a /boot separate partition is that if you install a second version of Mandrake (say when 9.2 comes out) you will have less editing to do to make the multiboot work - but it's up to you, it's not difficult. The only other think that I can think of is deciding which format to use. Do choose a journaling file system. There are many arguments as to which is the best type, but for simplicity for a newbie I would recommend ext3. It's better at recovery if anything goes wrong than the basic ext2, withouth complications that can happen on the very rare occasions that Reiser etc go wrong. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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