On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:42 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 20:15, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > You can simply leave space unpartitioned and decide later. > But... > Having multiple partitions is more work to plan sizes, maintain the system, > add them to new installed system specially if it is different distribution. > One can experience strange problems if one program attempts to use same name > cache or database in /var that is common for few of them. The command rpm > comes as an example. > *** > > So, I would use openSUSE default. It seems good for desktop use. > At least all installation scripts know about it and installing and removing > packages will not involve manual work. > I disagree with that, even in multi-boot systems, several *nix would maintain their own knowledge of their unique partitions, based on their own copy of fstab. You would have to purposefully force one distro to mount say a common /tmp PARTITION to get any corruption or "cross-talk" problems.
In addition to the other layouts mentioned, I always have /usr on one drive, and /usr/lib on a second. Programs LOAD measurably faster, sourced from two physical drive units. But I never "cross-link" any partitions between my 9.3 and 10.2 versions...other than "local" storage partitions /local, /graphic, /data, and /kids that contain "work" files. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
