[TriLUG] partitioning advice

[Ed Hill]

Matt Matthews wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:50:13PM -0500, Peter Long wrote:
> 
>>What is the best way to partition your harddrive space so that it is
>>easier to manage upgrades?
>>
> 
> At the very least, I use two partitions on my main home desktop: / and /home


+1, "/" and "/home" is a fine way to go for a mostly-one-user workstation
or laptop.


> I've tried more elaborate partitioning schemes but haven't found them that
> worthwhile. In particular, on a laptop I think that one mongo / partition
> should work fine for most people.

I think having a separate "/home" is IMHO a great idea so that, when you 

decide to re-install your distro, you can keep your user data in the /home
partition and not destroy it when you do the re-install.


Ed


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