Wed, 19 Sep 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > My old desktop computer died in such a way that I'm faced with complete > reinstall(s) on its replacement, multi-boot including openSuSE 10.2, > starting from new disks, new everything. Core 2 Quad CPU. > > In searching the Net for advice on an optimum disk layout, all I've > succeeded in doing is confuse myself in trying to come to terms with the > often contradictory advice out there. > > Given that space will not be a problem of itself (two SATA 320 GB disks, > non-RAID), what layout would make sense? I want to do individual > partitions for /, /boot, and /home; but what about others? What about > /usr, or /var? What are the plusses and minuses involved (a lot of Net > afficionados refer to these but don't explain what they are)? > > Opinions or advice will be gratefully received. Thank you.
In other advices I haven't seen the obvious: use LVM. Divide the disk in as much logical volumes as you initialy need partitions, and if you need more, use lvcreate to take some space from the spare heap of the volume group. Can be done in YaST or from cli, in scripts or whatever. With LVM there's (almost) never reason to re-partition anymore. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.20 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
