-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-04-10 at 00:52 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: ...
Note: any time you change partitions you will LOSE ALL DATA CONTAINED ON THE DISK.
Not so drastic: only of the partitions you touch.
Also, when partitioning don't forget to create a swap file. Rule of thumb make the swap file 2 times the size of the ram installed up to about 1 Gig. (i.e. 512M or RAM, then create 1G swap) Any swap over 1-2 Gig is a waste of space. If you ever swapped that much the disk I/0 would bring your system to its knees.
Not exactly. For instance, if you intend to hybernate, your swap should be larger than your ram.
I usually like ~100M for /boot, (you can easily fit 3 kernels there and 4 will fit). If you have 100G drive, then make / 15G and /home the remaining 85G. You can really easily fit every application you can dream of in a 15G / partition. If you have a 500G drive, then I would make / 20G and then use the remaining 480G for /home. I have just about everything under the sun loaded and it takes a total of 8.1G. (here are my active partitions shown with df -h)
I would leave one or two small partitions for an extra linux or two. Suppose you want to test the new suse version, for instance. 10 Gb is quite ample for this. They also come handy as rescue systems. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH/dAGtTMYHG2NR9URApRoAJ0ZL6tRBLBFJ0d1jdZ0j/VlVuUgOACfTJSz EypIvYfG1vCL6KH+xZhBpDA= =K1WT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org