the swap file should never be more than 128meg in size...actually
smaller if you have more than 128 mb of ram!
you can do a complete install with as little as one / partition and one
swap file!
on my current setup I have / ,/home, and swap as my partitions
mandrake does the rest
Gregg Black wrote:
>
> I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
> separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I
> would like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was
> a little bit confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of
> root. This is how I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be
> done. I set one partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I
> thought that would cover my separate partition for /usr as well as the
> mount point. My second partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all,
> as the last is for swap) I set as mount point /home. Then of course
> the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
>
> At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting
> root, then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary
> for /home but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and
> /home partition. Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
>
> I'm using mandrake 7.2
>
> -Gregg
