Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 21:12, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> I'm about to organize the hard drive on a new system and I'm looking
> for advice about partitioning it.  The question is: which Linux
> partitions should be separated out from the root partition? 
> Candidates
> are /boot, /usr, /var, /home (that one for sure), /tmp, and
> /usr/local.   I can probably make pretty good guesses at the
> appropriate sizes by looking at my existing systems.

IMO, the only important one to separate is /home. i always 
keep /usr, /var, etc under my / partition. Sometimes i'll make /boot on 
its own partition, but in recent years this has come to be an obsolete 
practice. In Yesteryear, when lilo couldn't read all filesystem types 
and /boot needed to be, say, ext2, i would split /boot off and make / 
reiserfs. With Grub this generally isn't a problem.

Sizes: IMO 10GB is completely enough for a typical root partition - give 
the remaining space to /home. In my experience user-specific software 
gets installed under ~/ rather than /usr/local, and / stays well below 
10GB.

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