On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:15:04AM -0700, Bob Scofield scofield-at-omsoft.com |lugod| wrote: > I'm planning to install Linux on my wife's computer because she does not like > Vista. I'm going to create a dual boot and will have 111GB for Linux.
I use and reccomend the following to anyone who is willing to learn it: 500MB: /boot everything else: LVM2 under LVM2, create volumes of somewhat conservitive size, and LEAVE FREE SPACE. EG, in your 111GB drive, /: 20GB /home: 60GB You then may experiance the joy of snapshot, which allow you to create a copy of a filesystem frozen in time without having to copy anything. If you use a filesystem such as XFS that supports online resize, you can englarge your volumes without intterupting work to shut down. the text based ubuntu/debian installers support LVM2 out of the box. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
