Hi! That's a good topic, and one I'd like to know more about myself. What I have: My main HD is 8.4 GB. Partitions are @20 MB for /boot, 128 MB swap and about 4 GB each for / and /home. I have /home on a separate partition because I have been told that this can protect your data in case you need to reinstall. Also, I have heard the argument that if a file system becomes corrupted on one partition, you will limit damage by having more than one partition. The hard part about partitioning a HD is that until you have some experience with what you need, you have no clue. So what I ended up doing was having 3 partitions: for /boot, swap and / until I knew what I was doing and then just took my lumps and repartitioned and reinstalled at a point when I added some new hardware to my system that wanted a new kernel. Maybe not necessary, but not too painful at that point. ONE THING TO BE CAREFUL OF.(We gibbering idiots sometimes have useful things to impart. :-) Later on, I realized that I could use the perfectly good 500 MB drive I had replaced with the 8.4 GB drive as a backup disk. The first time I tried this, I used the hard drive for /opt. STOOOPID! This wiped out the old /opt directory so I had to reinstall lots of apps. This probably goes w/o saying, but look at what your directories (mount points?) are named before adding a new partition! I did it right the second time: the old hard drive has one partition and holds the /bax (backups) directory. I gave it its own name. Steve 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.
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