* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read > all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the > only OS on this hard drive. Can somebody who has experience with this size > drive tell me if there is major advantage to breaking up the hard drive > into smaller partitions.
There is a mini-howto about that, too. It's called Partition Howto and is available at a linuxdoc mirror near you. On a home box with only a couple of users and no permanent net connection, I use three partitions: /boot, swap and /. On the servers at work I usually make separate /var, and some others, depending on the setup (e.g. separate /home if there are users, /opt and/or /usr/local on solaris; /usr/share if I want to share it between several boxen.) On a firewall/gateway, I'd make a separate /var and /tmp, so they can be mounted read-write while the rest is mounted ro. And so on. Dima -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD. -- Shmuel Metz "Go forth and multiply". -- Paul Martin
