Thank you both.
On 6/12/06, Bryan J. Smith
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:46 +0200, Derek wrote:
Hi all. After testing the liveDVD of the 10.1 on my laptop, I've decide to move from windows to Suse10.1. Everything worked fine. Just a begginer question, how I should partition my disk thinking in next OS updates? Have you any more advices?
For a notebook, just root (/) and swap will do. Don't worry about much else, you've got limited storage. When I have 50+GB, I like to at least create root (/), swap, /tmp, /var and /usr, in addition to any data storage.
I outlined these details in a couple of blog entries ...
The first is _ideal_ if you're coming from Windows (because it talks about FAT v. inode, and why FAT, including NTFS, has issues): "Filesystem Fundamentals and Practices"
http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/08/filesystem-fundamentals-and-practices.h...
More server-centric, here is a follow-up blog entry: "Linux Servers: Eccentric Practices for Disk Slicing"
http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/09/linux-servers-eccentric-practices-for.h...
I really recommend the second article, even if you're just running a home file server. How you create your sole file server in a SOHO is a great learning experience for when you start growing and adding another, and another, as well as additional storage.
There's a reason why you _should_ create /export and more hierarchical trees in your storage from the get-go. I'm running into this very issue at my new client as they have grown from 5 engineers to over 50 before I got there.
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