HI Rajko, Rajko M. wrote:
Anyway, is there a _short_ website recommending how to chose the best partition sheme for openSUSE 10.3?
I guess not yet :-( A bit old articles: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Partitioning_for_SuSE_Linux http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Manual_Partitioning_with_YaST2 http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mounting,_Partitioning,_and_Configuring_File_Syst...
Newer that I had no time to read: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:An_Advanced_Discussion_on_Partitioning_a_BOOT_or_...
Non of these do recommend any partitioning sheme.
Probably the best way would be to create another 4 GB primary partition in the
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If you have to use 20 + 4 GB as it is, you can create 2 primary partitions in
Sorry I am out of primary partitons too.
For basic Linux system it is recommended to have swap, / (root of file system) and /home partitions. Though, in your case I would skip /home and create only swap (about 1 GB) and the rest would be / .
OK, that is what I did.
The 4 GB would serve as archive or backup space. IMHO, 4 GB is too small for root of file system, or /home .
I hope to use some of the windows ntfs partitions as backup space.
It is probably the best way to use openSUSE installer proposal for now,
That is not an option as Yast wanted to install on an external USB.
and plan to purchase another hard disk and install openSUSE there.
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