Linux Tyro said the following on 10/30/2011 07:35 PM:
Okay, installer is smart enough to know all this things, and I would go with the default options only, but I was trying to know somehow what exactly was the purpose of having separate partitions and how does it help....
Go google http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/requirements.html#AEN493 Old but still sensible http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/01/effective-partitioning-how-and-why-of.... Especially the 'why'. Note, for example that having a seperate /tmp allows it to be mounted noexec and nosetuid and also means you can't have hard links to /sbin There is also a commment there which supports my view of LVM. Once you have /boot and a basic "/" in place and devoted the rest of the disk to LVM, creating the rest of the partitions (/tmp, /home, /usr, /var) in LVM isn't any more complicated than if you created them as extended paritions, but give you more flexibility and mangeabiluity. So why not do it. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-resizing-partitions-1/inde... With a 250G drive you can bet that you won't be happy with the partitioning scheme you start with. You are going to wonder why using file systems with so little space take so much effort. Thinks like FSCK are O(2) or better. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=227909 You are better with more but smaller file systems, and that is something much easier with LVM. I illustrted this with my earlier posting of the partitions I use for my own space under /home/anton: /home/anton/PDF /home/anton/Media /home/anton/Documents /home/anton/Downloads /home/anton/.thunderbird I originally had /home/anton/Mail/ but moved that to the mail server and now use IMAP :-) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lpic1-v3-102-1/ Read the caveats under "Allocating disk Space". -- "In security ... an effective answer is often simple but you are liable to be burned at the stake for suggesting it." A. Padgett Peterson, P.E., CISSP February 24, 2001 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org