Your partitioning scheme, with 3/4 root, 1/4 home, and the rest swap sounds
good to me. You definitly want /home on it's own partition, so that if you
ever need to reinstall or upgrade, you can just format the root parititon,
but keep all your /home files safe.
> > 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
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