Best Filesystems?

[William Park]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:02:07PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On August 10, 2005 11:12, Steve wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about filesystem types. I've got an 80GB drive
> > that I'm planning to reformat and install Ubuntu. I plan to create
> > 3 partitions:
> >
> > 9.0 GB - For the OS and system files.
> > 512 MB - SWAP (equal to amount of RAM)
> > 70 GB - For user data files which will include many MP3s, OGGs and
> > a few DVD rips (ie. mostly single large files > 1MB each)
> 
> I think putting all the OS and system files in one big partition is a 
> poor choice when you have room to spare on your disk. I typically 
> have the following partitions:

I disagree.  It's probably the best way.  That is, one partition for /
and another for /home.  Everything else goes in one or the other
partition.  Of course, another disk for backup, but it's off topic.

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