On Tuesday August 3 2004 12:52 am, jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
Hi list,
I recently stared partitioning my 40Gig Linux system disk as one large '/' partition (with a bit of space on the side for swap partition).
SuSE thus obviously creates all the home directories and other folders on the one drive.
This is a very Windowsy approach but I find it makes everything simpler to manage.
Can anyone advise why I should partition differently and or what the benefits are of splitting partitions across multiple drives.
This machine I have mentioned is a personal workstation. I have a server to setup next week and I am busy looking for advice on how I should format it.
Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective.
There's no really "right" way to partitian a drive, buy a number of usable methods. I'd probably do something like: / = 2G /swap = 1G /opt = 2G /usr = 4G /home = 4G /local = balance of drive. I'd use reiserfs for all partitions. There are others who will give you a different config., all workable. Note, the reason I have /local being a large partitian is that I often will install software there, I use a dir. there for compiling software, and also temp. and permanant storage of images and other files. Hope this helps, Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."