Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Jon Clausen <dsl23212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:20:01AM -0700, 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.

I'd certainly recommend making /home.

Bruce and Anders make good points. But in any case having /home is just a
Good Thing.

Whether you decide to leave space for parallel installs of 8.3/9.0/other
distro or whatever, having your data in /home will save you the trouble of
having to move everything off the system, if (or when) you decide to change
your partition layout, at a later stage.

The downside being that kde (f.x.) stores your settings in a directory in
your home. Which means that you could see some strangeness if you some day
have 8.2/kde3.1 *and* 8.3/kde3.2 accessing the same files in ~/.kde/

What's that quote? "For the homeless, the journey is endless"? ;)

HTH
Jon Clausen

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