On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one > task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into > practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then you can > use each spare partition for what ever task you like. OTOH, having a rather large /home partition means having a lot of room to play around with, and in "familiar" territory, if you catch my meaning. Downloads (movies, music, etc.), source installs, and the like can all be accessed/done from your home dir, rather than moving around between partitions for each purpose. There's a lot more to /home than just config files. I think this is why the traditional setup, AFAIK, has always been somewhere close to one /, one /swap, and one /home (sounds like a George Thorogood song...). Keep it simple. Especially since in Linux, there is really no problem with even running apps from yer home dir; my WM even runs from ~/. I wouldn't argue against perhaps leaving 5 or 10 GB unpartitioned for future use, but having too many partitions can get confusing for the average user, if any of us can be called average ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. -- Voltaire
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