Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] hard drive partitioning

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Unless serving /home over NFS or some such system I'd say you'd want a
/home partition too so if you have to upgrade or whatever you don't have
to worry so much about backing up your users files.

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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:

> Kmicic wrote:
> 
> > - 1st partiotion (about 200Mb) root (/)
> > - 2nd partition (128Mb) swap
> > - 3rd partition (everything else) /usr
> >
> > any comments?
> 
> Better yet - your second option:
> 
> 1. 16-20 MB for /boot
> 2. 64-128 MB for swap (depending on RAM and disk size)
> 3. the rest for /
> 
> It's a rather obvious scheme and I believe it is recommended by installation
> manuals. On 1024-cylinder drives, you don't even need the separate /boot
> partition. I usually break up non-workstation setups though.
> 
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