On Monday 28 June 2004 23:24, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote:
> >I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I
> > don't know how to chop it up.....
>
> Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache,
> mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with one big partition.
> Multiple partitions are for protecting various parts of your
> system from crashing if a service goes out of control and takes
> all the disk space. A separate home paritition will allow system
> services to continue running even though a user might take all
> available space for his files. If it's your own system and
> something goes wild, just boot from CDROM, fix problem and reboot
> again. With separate partitions you may be able to keep some
> services running while fixing a problem with single service, but
> if that situation will never happen (like on a home use machine)
> don't bother with so many partitions.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. One of the - innurable - advantages
of having separate partitions is the ease of upgrading. Having a
separate /home partition rather than a /home directory makes is a
snap to install system upgrades : just don't format the /home
partition and everything installs, leaving your settings, documents
and whatnot intact, ready for use, sparing you the hazzle of making
backups prior to upgrading.
At least I would recommend :
a / partition around 5-10 GB
a /swap partition equal to the RAM size
a /home partition for the remaining disk space
An additional partition for backups, sharing and one thing and
another often comes in handy. Call it /misc or something. And make
its file system FAT32.
Just my 0,02 ¤
Kaj Haulrich.
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