-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/07 03:04, Wei Chen wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > [snip] >>> I _always_ put /home on its own partition if nothing else. >> I do not put /home on a separate partition because I never know how much >> space I need for personal files and how much space I need for system >> files. If I have another physical disk, I'd rather put backups on it. > > I *strongly* urge you to put /home on a separate partition. > > Why? If you ever have to do a scratch install, the installer will > init / (that's where /home lives if it's not on a separate > partition) and *poof* goes all your data. >
What I currently do to handle scratch installation is that: Before I do the installation, I rename /home to something like /abc to make sure the installation process won't touch it. During the installation, I choose to use existing partition and not to re-partition or format. And after the installation is finished, I remove the new /home that is generated during the installation and rename /abc back. > I've found that a 20GB root partition gives you *ample* room for / > and a couple of 1GB swap *files*. Give the rest to /home. > > OR make /home 8-9 GB and then create a /data/01 partition which > fills up the rest of the disk. Extra disks, manage with LVM and > call them /data/02. > Thanks for the partition suggestion. I guess it could be easier with the LVM solution. Thanks. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFIiLCIqXQV6BF28RAvA/AKCghXFs+FKrK63n50v6IOeEj0erxwCgk19c 8kY21dapGEVb6bwgcKN/y7s= =IudO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
