Hi
Its a good question, often it is best for first time users to place
eveything on one partition
this is not a good idea in the long run
there are many reasons why, and perhaps system maintainnance and
flexibility to move things around alter is a good reason to use many
partitions
Here is what ( and why) I do
These are all separate partitions
/ root file system around 200 Mb
/boot only the boot stuff around 15 Mb
/home for personal files depends but I have 500 Mb for 3 users on one
system
/usr for all those added applications and common stuff I
have 2 Gb here
Now , some people make other partitions for /usr/local and /var but I
now do this
/Data a large partition for all my documents, applications, downloaded
stuff etc etc around 18Gb on my system
The reasons for these are as follows
The basic install resides in the first four partitions
the main advantage here is that if something gets corrupted and I need
to
unmount a partiotion and run e2fsck on it I can
Cant do that so easily if it is all on ine partition. Also should I run
out of space I can add another drive and mount it as the partition I am
expanding ver y easily
in /Data I make soft links to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib as well
to /home/user/peronal documents so that everything added after a basic
install now resides on one partition. Iin the event of that (inevitable)
scew up and re-install all my data and programs are back in place after
maki9ng a few soft links. Also from the point of view of backing up, it
is easy simly to copy just ione partition ot back up media.
I have skipped a few things here, but ut works nicley for me I can have
a
new install of Mandrake, with all my customise dapps, settings,
backgrounds etc etc in around 45 minutes on any machine . All I need is
my Mandrake CD and my CD backups of the /Data partition
Hope his may help
Phil
Bob Hartung wrote:
> Okay I don'w want to start a war, but I am somewhat confused
> over the best partition plan to a new install on a large
> capacity laptop. I am thinking something along the line of
> a small boot partition but then how an perhaps why should I
> partition the remaining 6-7 GB that will be available after
> I minify the Win98 partition for the one application I use
> (Visual FoxPro - but not for long when I get up to speed on
> OMNIS's new RAD and after I settle on a RBMS but that is
> another story).
>
> Should I make it just one large partition under "/" or
> should I separate "/etc", '/usr" "/sbin" etc.?
>
> All help appreciated. I do not intend this to turn into a
> flame war just a two or three different partition ideas will
> give me enough information.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Hartung
>
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