Felix Miata said the following on 10/30/2011 10:54 AM:
Such an inexperienced user as you would do well to avoid micromanaging partitions. The most such a person should consider would be separate /, /home, swap & /boot, and probably not /boot either.
The main reason I'd have for disagreeing is something Tyro hasn't told us (Or that I didn't note): the size of his disk. If this is a smaller disk (<100M) then yes, don't leave room to experiment. If this is larger (>250M) then its worth allocating a sizeable chunk to LVM to play around. That's how I started. Once I'd done the first install (/boot. /, /home/, /tmp, /usr + LVM) I saw that I could move /usr/share/<stuff> to the LVM but by bit and mount it. Eventually I shuffled and merged all the bits into a /usr/share on LVM and along the way learnt a lot about LVM :-) All it was low risk and except for the last step it was all reversible. This was on the 80G drive dial boot system I mentioned earlier. When as of /usr was on LVM I deleted the 'hard' partition that /usr had occupied and added its space to the LVM. Next was /tmp. Then I moved the spaces under my home directory to the LVM, Downloads, Documents, Media. Once again this was incremental (rsync is wonderful) ad reversible and hence low risk. In effect I was backing up the 'hard' partitions into the LVM and the making the 'backups' like by editing the fstab. All LOW risk. All reversible. In my opinion, having a separate /boot is VERY important no matter what you are doing. -- The only truly safe embedded system is one with an axe embedded in it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org