On Wednesday 09 April 2003 16:30 pm, John Lamb wrote:
Michael Satterwhite wrote:
Esp. with the upcoming release of SuSE 8.2, I'm going to do a new setup of my system. With a single 80 Gb hard drive, what would be the best way to set up the partitions. I intend to wipe and reload.
I use
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 2104408 148724 1955684 8% / /dev/hda6 31079 3883 25592 14% /boot /dev/hda12 4401636 1472472 2929164 34% /home /dev/hda11 5245020 1657748 3587272 32% /opt /dev/hda9 12586504 6480144 6106360 52% /usr /dev/hda10 2104408 602856 1501552 29% /var
on about 30Gb and there's plenty of spare space. I also has /tmp with about 2Gb on /dev/hdb until the controller failed. /tmp is now symlinked to /usr, which is why it's full and /home contains everything I want to transfer to 8.2
Not to refute the above, but I use: / /boot /home swap and that's it... except for an additional area I call /ftparea which allows you to keep those neet things you downloaded and installed to be used for the next release. My motto: keep it as simple as possible, and when you start installing multiple versions/distros etc.... too much of a split gets confusing pretty fast. I see no real advantage to splitting out /opt, /usr, /var, or even /tmp. To each his own, and whatever works.
Secondary question: If I wanted to have two versions of Linux on the system at the same time (e.g. 8.1 and 8.2), can that be done, and if so, how?
tia ---Michael
Yes, I've done it in the past. Create two partitions of each of the sizes above and install twice. You'll probably need a boot disk to make sure that you can access the first installation if it all goes belly-up. The two installations can share a swap partition.
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