Graham Smith wrote: > Rob > > > >> In theory unless something goes completely wrong you should be able to >> upgrade online as each new release is made available but I'd say a >> separate home partition is a good thing. >> > > Yes, I like the principle > > > Having a separate home partition also means > >> that you could format your root partition as ext4 for extra performance >> and keep your home partition as ext3 if you wished. >> > > Or even NTFS I assume to make it easy for a dual boot Windows > > > Well I wouldn't personally format my home partition to NTFS. I can however access my Windows partition with the NTFS3g driver which is handy for those occasions when I need to access something off it (I rarely use Vista on my laptop, I don't think I've used it in 2 months or so).
What I would love (not sure if something is available) is a addon for Firefox so I can save my bookmarks to a central server (ideally my own personal server) and have it shared between my many PCs, at the moment I must have about 5 or 6 different sets of bookmarks. Being able to access them from anywhere (like I can with my mail) would be handy. >> I generally allocate about 20 to 40GB for root depending on the size of >> the drive. On my desktop I used to use 40GB (it was a 750GB drive) and >> on my laptop with a 250GB drive I tend to allocate 20GB for root (mainly >> because I also have Vista installed on it which I give about 60GB) but >> really I think 15GB would probably be plenty. >> > > Thanks, useful to know. > > No problem, you can always resize the partitions using something like gparted if need be if you find you don't use as much space, or need more space. >> As far as the swap partition goes (you'd have to create this manually >> too if you do a manual partitioning), if you want to use Hibernate then >> you'd need to allocate a partition at least (if not slightly larger to >> be safe) to match the size of your system memory. So for instance if >> you have 2GB on your PC, allocate at least 2GB swap (or maybe something >> like 2.2GB). I found when I got to 4GB though that it was easier just >> to shut the machine down and boot it up as it was quicker than >> hibernate. Now on my laptop with 4GB memory I have about a 600MB swap >> partition. >> > > Thanks again, these sorts of decsions are always difficult to meake > without some experience. > > Yep, I was thinking along the lines of my laptop has limited space and I can't really afford a bigger hard drive at the moment for it so I decided to go for a smaller swap and not use hibernate (which I have found is a bit hit and miss anyway for me anyway, I generally use suspend mode when I'm not using the laptop for short periods of time). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
