Can someone please tell me the point of having several partitions on the
same drive for one GNU/Linux installation? I can't imagine that it would
be much faster, and there is not really much risk of losing data with
only one partition, especially with new filesystems like ReiserFS. I
simply use one partition for everything, and I have had no problems
whatsoever. If I had several partitions I would be wasting space since
/boot, / and other partitions would not be full, and so would be robbing
space from /home.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm interested in repartitioning
my drive to give more room to Linux (about 9GB in total, excluding Swap).
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:48, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:57, Richard T. Waters wrote:
> > Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of
> > doing a full install, rather than an upgrade.
>
> A person after my own heart! Of course doing a backup first of all
> your data is a good idea!
>
> > Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information.
>
> Yup!
>
> > I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best
> > for an install, and I notice there are (as usual)
> > varying opinions.
> >
> > Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to
> > set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good
> > rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions?
>
> I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is what I tell them for
> a 5 Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected, flamed, etc for
> this but I can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a general
> suggestion and is not written in stone).
>
> Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a different opinion
> about putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't.
>
> These are in order on how I recommend creating on a 5 gig drive:
> /boot = 64 meg
> Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in your machine. More if
> a server (probably 4 times).
> / = 3.5 Gig
> /home = remainder of all drive space.
>
> This seems to let them do a full development install and it works.
>
> (OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing list Gods, but if
> you are near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake Campus courses
> at: http://www.innovationsw.com/training.
> -Chris
>
> > Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > > 7.3 ???? NO, No, no.....
> > >
> > > 8.0 ---- YES, Yes, yes!
> > >
> > > Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be
> > > 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already
> > > subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch
> > > the progress.
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------
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