On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 14:08, 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.
For a laptop... the simple partitioning is a lot easier and more logical for the kind of use it'll get. There's nothing wrong with splitting up into dozens of partitions if you want, but you're not gaining much on a laptop. I can see using an 11 partition scheme like you describe on a server that uses LVM and RAIDs and you need to be able to protect/manage/shuffle data in the various partitions... or where you can add/remove space out of the LVM drive pool. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org