gary turner wrote: > After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB > HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64. > > Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, > Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home > Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and > temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my apps up and > running. Space is needed for mirroring 3 or 4 web sites at a time; > may be in /home/* or /var/www/ > > LAN servers, Apache, mail and MySQL will remain on the PIIIs. > > All the HOWTOs, etc. that I've found talk about 2-10GB HDs, which were > helpful in 2000 when I first installed Debian. I find them less so > when looking at so much more space. > > I will appreciate any and all suggestions for a partition plan, > especially those where a rationale for the plan is included.
Even in the old time, I don't think "partition plans" were much good, it depends a lot on the planned use. You can use LVM, this way you can change the partitioning relatively easily if you need more space in a specific partition. -- Don't lose Your head To gain a minute You need your head Your brains are in it. -- Burma Shave Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]