Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Best regards,
Stefan Citát Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 03:17, [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 > I cannot tell you what is best because it is too personal. You must > take all info that you receive and decide for yourself what you want. > That said I prefer ext3 with journaling I had a problem with reiserfs > so I quit using it. The following is what I use: > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 > 3023608 115548 2754468 5% / > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 > 18357996 621000 16804448 4% /backup > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > 67313 12877 50960 21% /boot > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 > 20157836 8081416 11052448 43% /home > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 > 34633036 26713808 6159968 82% /music > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 > 8062888 33220 7620096 1% /tmp > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 > 20157836 2582092 16551772 14% /usr > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 > 9910804 194652 9212708 3% /var > As you can see the part's are larger than they need to be, if I did > repartitioning again I would set them much closer to the used size > YMMV. I have a 120GB HD running 10.0 Off. > Regards; > Hoyt > Registered Linux User #363264 > http://counter.li.org > >
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