Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze

The sizes look sane.
2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap.
15GB / plenty of space.
.5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity with df -h as the drive can fill up with old Linux images.
The rest for home files makes sense as well.

On Oct 9, 2012 8:13 PM, "Wally Lepore" <wallylepore@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wally,
> looks like an ok partitioning scheme. Having /home on its own partition
> means you can keep its contents even if you change the linux installed.
> Personally, I don't use a /boot partition; I just use / and /home.

Hi Wolf,

Ok thanks. I guess I'm 'okay to go'. What do you think about how much
space I have allocated to each partition? As you can see I have an 80
gig drive (total) that I'm installing debian too. Should I leave some
'free space' in the event I want to add another directory in the
future?

Thank you for your support.
Wally

>
> Wolf Halton
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> Apache developer:
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> On Oct 9, 2012 7:32 PM, "Wally Lepore" <wallylepore@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> In order to be sure that Debian installs successfully, I also have a
>> USB stick that has the required debian firmware files loaded in the
>> event the debian installer asks for it during set-up.
>>
>> Debian said:
>> If any of the hardware in your system requires non-free firmware to be
>> loaded with the device driver, you can use one of the tarballs of
>> common firmware packages or download an non official image including
>> these non-free firmwares. Instructions how to use the tarballs and
>> general information about loading firmware during an installation can
>> be found in the Installation Guide (see Documentation below).
>>
>> source: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/
>>
>> The firmware files were downloaded from:
>>
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/squeeze/current/
>>
>> Thank you
>> Wally
>>
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