partitioning new installation

[Clive DaSilva]

wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:

>Quoting Chris Aitken <caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org>:
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>>Can anyone suggest a partitioning scheme for a new FC4 installation?
>>Every time I make a bunch of partitions I end up with too much free
>>space on some and not enough on others (notably /usr and /home).
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>>Master is 20 GB and slave is 6 GB. I think I'll partition the slave as
>>/backupdrive -- that's worked well for me on another machine - .jpg's,
>>.ogg's et al.
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>>How about
>>swap 500 MB (I have 256 MB RAM)
>>/boot 256 MB
>>/ the remainder
>>?
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>>Chris
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>Personally, I like a separate partition for /home, that way when I reinstall the
>OS, I don't have to back up my own data.  Generally, I do something like this:
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>/boot - no more than what it needs
>/ - ~6 GB (this depends how much additional software you install, you'll get a
>better idea of this size over time)
>swap - 2 x RAM
>/home - whatever is left
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>You really have to just see what works for you.  And by the way, if you're the
>type who likes to be on the bleeding edge, you might want to hold off for a
>week since Fedora Core 5 is supposed to come out next Wednesday.  But you can
>always do an upgrade afterwards.
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>Tom Watts
>wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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Interesting suggestion, Tom

Mandrake or Mandriva as it is now called defaults to a setup like that

My 2 bits

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