Depends on what you do - a fair amount of video recording/editing will gobble up those 160Gb fairly fast. I said 20Gb for root (/) to allow for lots of space in /usr/src, in /var and /tmp, the typical growth areas apart from /home. I think I usually allocate 10Gb for root these days.
True but he would still have the option to add more partitions. I think I allocate about 13 or 15GB for root these days.
I do partitioning because the OSes require it, not for.. whatever. Like this Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 66 530113+ 82 Linux/Swap /dev/hda2 67 1354 10345860 83 Linux/XFS /dev/hda3 * 1355 4094 22009050 7 NTFS /dev/hda4 4095 4865 6193057+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 4095 4865 6193026 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/hdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 63 506016 82 Linux/Swap /dev/hdc2 64 30515 244605690 83 Linux/XFS And never have the problem to deal with repartitioning since everything (that is, hda2) is one nice big blob. Even if hdc was not there, I would do it like this, and not move /home to a different partition. If you want to reinstall, just boot a rescue system and remove all but /home beforehand. Jan Engelhardt -- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com