On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 14:08 +0200, 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.
Like some said before, put all (except /boot) in logical volumes. Normally i keep /usr and /opt at about 80% usage. I used to make /boot 100MB, biut it seems that its not enough, so double it to 200MB Considering srv,data and local: data belonging to server processes (apache, mysql, openldap, ftp, tftp and so on should reside under /srv) Seems rather large for a laptop imho, so i should shrink it to what you need. It is the nice thing about lvm, you can enlarge them when you need it, thus not wasting space, but atoh keep things seperate that could interfere In case you run processes that "complain" a lot, you might consider putting /var/log into a separate partition. Some even put /var/run into a tiny seperate partition (some MB) so that they have a garanteed working area to write their PID Oh, and btw, if you take the laptop along, don't forget to add encryption to the volume-group. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org