Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 June 2003 13:20 pm, Daly Gutierrez wrote:
> Hi, friends.
>
> I plan to install SuSE Linux on a new hard drive today.  It is a
> Western Digital, 120 GB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache drive (I hope it's
> compatible).  My question is this: Is there a better way to partition
> this big drive, other than what will be recommended during the
> installation?  I believe the default is a boot partition, a swap
> partition, and the rest for root.  Thanks in advance.  I hope for a
> prompt response, as I'm anxious to begin using SuSE Linux.
>
> -- Daly (daly.gutierrez@xxxxxxx)

1) Keep it simple.  Others will tell you to divide things into  /var /usr 
/home /etccccccc

2) Don't let the install use up all your space!

3) I usually make a:

/boot   23m
/home    2G   (in your case you might want 3G)
/        6G   (is plenty)
/swap    1G    (is plenty)

That's all I would do...

What this will do is to leave you plenty of space to ADD SuSE 8.3 when it 
comes along... or to set up other directories.  It also makes it easy to 
have just a /boot82  and a /boot83    and a /for 82 and a / for 83  
instead of having  5 to 10 different partitions for each version of the 
system.

Have more than one release of SuSE on your drive is a real benefit when 
something breaks,  or you want to do a new install.   (fresh install... 
don't ever upgrade if you can help it.)




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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         06/14/03 
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