On 04/09/2011 07:08 AM, 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.
Best regards, Wolfgang
I have done it both ways (lots of partitions) and (normal 3 /boot, /, /home). Eg: 15:29 archangel:~> cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 16 732574584 sdb 8 32 488386584 sdc 8 48 732574584 sdd 8 80 1465138584 sdf 8 81 1 sdf1 8 85 1465136128 sdf5 8 64 1465138584 sde 8 65 1 sde1 8 69 1465136128 sde5 8 0 488386584 sda 254 0 488386583 dm-0 254 1 732574583 dm-1 254 2 72229 dm-2 254 3 2104483 dm-3 254 4 20972826 dm-4 254 5 465234336 dm-5 254 6 19534977 dm-6 254 7 120456 dm-7 254 8 39062016 dm-8 254 9 1951866 dm-9 254 10 15358108 dm-10 254 11 30716248 dm-11 254 12 7510356 dm-12 254 13 618317721 dm-13 ...and... 15:30 supersff:~/tblds/qt3-45> cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 71681998 sda1 8 2 1 sda2 8 5 286720056 sda5 8 6 30716248 sda6 8 7 1951866 sda7 8 8 1261071 sda8 Sooner or later you will learn that the more partitions you have -- the more you will screw yourself due to the inability to create softlinks across partition boundaries. Don't get me wrong, I see great advantages from a backup/imaging standpoint of multiple partitions. But, I can backup regardless of how the partitions are laid out -- but I can't softlink across a partition boundary no matter how bad I "really really want to." KISS - is the best philosophy. Use only the number that you need. If you need 50 - use 50, if you can really get by with the normal 3 -- then you are better off with the normal 3. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org