On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 |
I would always recommend having separate partitions for / and /usr from all other partitions. The only mandatory partitions that must be formatted upon a fresh reinstall are / and /usr. If you keep those separate, you will always be able to reinstall without losing data. > - Do I need to have /usr on a root partition? Mine is a separate partition. Also /tmp and /var are separate but that is just because I am paranoid about potential DoS attacks that run the partitions out of space. Even from myself, I can do potentially dumb things at times, including creating ISO images that are very large and run the partition out of space. > - What FS would you recommend? Is it possible to have / as ext2/3 and > /mnt/disk as reiserfs? Yes. I personally prefer Reiser, especially now that it is basically supported off of the Mandrake LiveCD but everyone probably has their own ideas. -- Bryan Phinney
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