Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
You probably need to have a /boot partition because there is a problem accessing tracks after 1023 at boot (this is a bios limitation). You probably also want a swap partition. If you dual boot and are paranoid (as I) then you may want to have a vfat partition. The rest, unless you have more disk space than ext2 can handle goes into /. The swap partition is first (as it should be faster there) followed by /boot (so that you can boot) then / and finally the vfat partition. If you really know how your disk is going to be used then you can fine tune all the file systems, in my experience few people know how they will be using their computer. Most of the use of partitions comes from having disks that are too large for the file system or disks that are dangerously small where you need to protect system files from greedy users, neither of these cases should exist at home. /Michael -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/