[TriLUG] partitioning advice

[Peter Long]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the great advice from everyone. Seems most people agree
that /home should be a separate partition from /. I will also keep a
/boot partition, mainly coz autopartition made it. More than that seems
like too much work, mainly because I am the only user of the machine.

I like the /cds partition idea, mainly because I had to customise the
install so that I would work with my crummy RAID controller. I NEED
kernel 2.4.12 or greater.

Thanks for the "cron mirror of /etc" idea too. Definate keeper.

Thanks again.

Cheers
Peter Long

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:44:44PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Monday 17 December 2001 20:50, you wrote:
> 
> > What do the experts do and why?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Long
> 
> I like to use three partitions:
> 
>  - /boot: (~60Mb) I create it mainly because I'm an old fart and used to 
> creating this partion as the first one on the disk.  With Grub (and I think 
> newer versions of LILO) you don't need to worry about this any more.
> 
>  - /: (700Mb to 4Gb)  This is the root install.  If I want everything on a 
> distro, then I'll need close to that 4Gb.  My current "/" is using 1.5Gb.
> 
>  - /home: (all the space I can get!)  This is my home directory where I 
> install all my personal stuff and even mirror my /etc (via a cron job).  
> When I upgrade or re-install, I tar up the old root and normally drop it in 
> here til I'm happy with the new install.  That way I can always drop back 
> to my old install with a simple rescue boot and and un-tar.
> 
> Good luck - Jon
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