Hi Yatsen, The idea is that you could want the following partitions for the following reasons: - /boot, because there might be a problem reading partitions whose boundaries are above 1024 cylinders on booting. This can be avoided by making a /boot partition which is totally beneath this limit. - /usr, because it is a large and can be a very large directory as more programs are installed. By making it a seperate partition, you avoid it fills up your system with data so that no more data can be written, which can be a very bad thing for the operating system. - /home, it is (or can be) the place of user home directory's, and these can be large, etc... - /var, because in it are print-jobs and log files and these can be very large, etc... - /opt, same reason as /usr The rest can be in the /-partition, which by then should be a partition which contains mostly essential files, and which surely will have enough space for these. Regards, Sander van Vugt Azlan Training Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
-- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
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