I suggest increasing / to 10-15Mb, then putting everything but /home there. I find this leaves me plenty of room to modify an installed system. If you need more space for personal files, you can always add an external drive. Keeping /home separate allows you to destroy / and leave your personal stuff untouched. P On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install the 10.1 release of Mandrake on my new notebook. I > would like to partition my HD so I will not have to format partition with > my data each time I try to fully reinstall linux distribution. > > My question is, how I should partition my HD and what directories should be > on which partition? > > I was thinking about something like: > > Partition | Mount | Size GB | Contents > -----------+--------------+---------+------------------------------ > Root | / | 5 | /boot, /etc, /usr, /var, ... > Data | /mnt/disk | ~65 | /home, /usr/local, /tmp > Windows | /mnt/win | 10 | > Swap | swap | 0.5 | > > > More questions: > > - Do I need to have /usr on a root partition? > - What FS would you recommend? Is it possible to have / as ext2/3 and > /mnt/disk as reiserfs? > > The station is meant to be mainly desktop/development machine. > > Currently I am Debian user. > > Thanks, > > Stefan > -- > http://stefan.agentfarms.net
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