Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2417 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 April 2008 06:50:13 am Michael Kirchner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> rvJJax wrote:
> > but you can create a home partition first, save the iso image there
> > and do a normal
> > install but just format the `/' one. and remap the `/home' partition
> > after installation finish
> >
> > and have fun ;)
>
> in principle I could. If I were to rebuild Rome from the ashes. My
> situation is more like having a single stretch of 20GB between colosseum
> and forum for one building only and another 4GB outside the city.
>
> Anyway, is there a _short_ website recommending how to chose the best
> partition sheme for openSUSE 10.3?

I guess not yet :-( 
A bit old articles:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Partitioning_for_SuSE_Linux
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Manual_Partitioning_with_YaST2
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mounting,_Partitioning,_and_Configuring_File_Systems

Newer that I had no time to read:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:An_Advanced_Discussion_on_Partitioning_a_BOOT_or_Root_Partition_of_a_Hard_Disk

Useful:
http://en.opensuse.org/Access_Your_Windows_Files

While Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) will argue default partitioning scheme, his 
ideas demand a lot of background knowledge and planing that for daily desktop 
and new user are a bit too much to ask. With 20G + 4 GB that installer can 
gain from windows you can't do much, specially because 4 GB is extended 
partition and that is the place where openSUSE can create many partitions. 

Probably the best way would be to create another 4 GB primary partition in the 
begin of 20 GB space and using windows, format that partition the same way 
current 4 GB is formatted, usually it is FAT32, and copy all files to new 
partition. Than you will have one block of 24 GB. Before you do that check 
from windows is there any files marked as non-movable. That usually show as 
red stripes or blocks when you try to defragment partition. If yes than 
forget idea to make one block. 

If you have to use 20 + 4 GB as it is, you can create 2 primary partitions in 
20 GB block and few smaller in 4GB. The limitations of PC partitioning are 
described in the begin of 
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Partitioning_for_SuSE_Linux . 

For basic Linux system it is recommended to have swap, / (root of file system) 
and /home partitions. Though, in your case I would skip /home and create only 
swap (about 1 GB) and the rest would be / . The 4 GB would serve as archive 
or backup space. IMHO, 4 GB is too small for root of file system, or /home . 
My /home is 30 GB and it is feels small. I use another 40 GB as extension 
where are located virtual machines. The / is 20 GB and it is 40% used, so it 
could be half that size, and there is a bunch of programs installed. This way 
I have never problems with size of /tmp as it can take up to 12 GB before 
system locks. 

It is probably the best way to use openSUSE installer proposal for now, and 
plan to purchase another hard disk and install openSUSE there.  


-- 
Regards, Rajko
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