On Monday 10 December 2001 13:25 pm, Kristian Sorensen wrote:
Hello,
I'm going to reinstall my PC again, and would like to do a more useful partitioning of my 20 GB hard drive. Could anyone please help me out?
Regards, Kristian
My advice? KISS Keep it simple. There are few advantages to making a complex setup and many disadvantages. With many partitions (such as /home /usr /opt /etc ) 1) You have to do a lot of planning (and guesswork) to determine how big each should be. And future additions and upgrades may blow you out of the water on any of them. 2) Next time you install, you'll have to do a lot of moving and resizing because the next system you install will undoubtedly be bigger. 3) Make backups a bit tougher in some senses and maybe easier in other. A wash. 4) You will most likely end up with a lot of space in one partition and not enough in another. No way to easily move the space around. One partition for all doesn't have that problem. And what are the advantages of the above? Almost none in the case of the system directories unless you are A Really Big Shop that intends to run this install for years. Advantages of a single (or a couple) of partitions? 1) Make planning MUCH easier. 2) All free space is available to any part of the system. 3) Makes installing multiple distros or version a lot easier. (imagine having 3 versions/distros spread out over 15+ partitions. Gad..... The only partition I would make separate is the /home directory so you can (possibly) move it to the next install you do. That's it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/10/01 15:16 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra