On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:20:01AM -0700, Daly Gutierrez wrote:
Hi, friends.
I plan to install SuSE Linux on a new hard drive today. It is a Western Digital, 120 GB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache drive (I hope it's compatible). My question is this: Is there a better way to partition this big drive, other than what will be recommended during the installation? I believe the default is a boot partition, a swap partition, and the rest for root. Thanks in advance. I hope for a prompt response, as I'm anxious to begin using SuSE Linux.
I'd certainly recommend making /home. Bruce and Anders make good points. But in any case having /home is just a Good Thing. Whether you decide to leave space for parallel installs of 8.3/9.0/other distro or whatever, having your data in /home will save you the trouble of having to move everything off the system, if (or when) you decide to change your partition layout, at a later stage. The downside being that kde (f.x.) stores your settings in a directory in your home. Which means that you could see some strangeness if you some day have 8.2/kde3.1 *and* 8.3/kde3.2 accessing the same files in ~/.kde/ What's that quote? "For the homeless, the journey is endless"? ;) HTH Jon Clausen -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!