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[C <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 14:08, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> Yesterday I bought a new laptop and installed 11.4.
>
> As it is long ago when I installed OpenSuse last time, I followed
> the suggestion to create only three Linux partitions:
>
> Win7  167 GB (shrinked by the Installation CD)
> Swap    2 GB
> /      20 GB
> /home 260 GB (the remainder)
>
> Normally I would have created a much larger number of Linux partitions,
> for instance:
>
> Win7  167 GB (shrinked by the Installation CD, as above)
> Swap    2 GB
> /      10 GB
> /usr   20 GB
> /opt   10 GB
> /var    5 GB
> /tmp    5 GB
> /boot   0.09 GB
> /srv   60 GB
> /data  60 GB
> /local 60 GB
> /home  52 GB
>
> Does that make sense? Or is it only a waste of space, since the
> partitions cannot be filled completely?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

For a laptop... the simple partitioning is a lot easier and more
logical for the kind of use it'll get.  There's nothing wrong with
splitting up into dozens of partitions if you want, but you're not
gaining much on a laptop.  I can see using an 11 partition scheme like
you describe on a server that uses LVM and RAIDs and you need to be
able to protect/manage/shuffle data in the various partitions... or
where you can add/remove space out of the LVM drive pool.

C.
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