Re: Re: [SLE] Partitioning for professional vs. personal
From: Michael Hasenstein
Date: 2003/04/15 Tue AM 02:26:00 CDT To: Franklin Maurer CC: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Partitioning for professional vs. personal Unless you have a pretty good reason (shared server with access for many people, and/or running lots of different apps) just go with two partitions "swap and "/"). And/or use LVM and a resizable filesystem like reiserfs or ext3 on resizable logical volumes.
Michael
I would recommend going with three partitions: "swap," "/," and "/home." Upgrades are much easier with this setup because you won't wipe out your personal configuration files in "/home" when upgrading from one version to the next (assuming you do a fresh install, which is the route I take). Rich
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I would recommend going with three partitions: "swap," "/," and "/home." Upgrades are much easier with this setup because you won't wipe out your personal configuration files in "/home" when upgrading from one version to the next (assuming you do a fresh install, which is the route I take).
I use this scheme too. Moreover, I keep the content of /usr/local in the "home" partition, /usr/local is a symbolic link to /home/local then. I use two root partitions. One contains the old system and the other the new one. It simplifies the transition from the old system to the new one - if I don't succeed to configure all services in time, I boot the old system. The additional space requirement (10-15 GB) is not a big problem nowadays. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
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