On Sunday 27 April 2003 20:34, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I screwed up my upgrade on my 8.0 system going to 8.2 and had to redo the whole thing last night. I didn't have a /home directory and at the recommendation of everyone, I made one before installing.
Anyway, I made my /home directory 2GB in size. Is that too big....too small, or just fine?
Thanks, Tom
My recent policy on this has been to have a small /home partition (1GB - and NB I think you may have meant /home partition, not simply /home directory, which would make all /home data live on the / partition), adequately generous /, swap and /var, and then the rest of the disk devoted to a /data partition. The virtue of this is that I can reinstall over the disk several times, formating (having first backed up!) /home and the rest in order to save having to monkey with dot file incompatibilities, but not formatting /data. I just make /data the place I keep anything I want to preserve permanently. This may not be suitable if you have many users, of course, but works well for my desktop machines. I'm not trying to sell this as a substitute for backing up essential files before a re-install, of course. HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk