Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?
On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> You've also left off a recovery partition. I keep a 256 MiB - 512
> MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept.
I would go farther than that.
My preferred setup is to have enough space to completely install twice.
That way if I decide to reinstall or make a major upgrade, the other
one is there for recovery.
Here's mine ....
/ 250 mb
/usr 5 gig
/tmp 250 mb
/var 1 gig (cache fills up occasionally)
/home
/alt 250 mb
/alt/usr 5 gig
/alt/var 1 gig
/alt/home
The /alt stuff has helped many times.
It was a way that I could try Debian without losing my old Mandrake
system.
It was a way that I could switch to unstable, while keeping stable in
case of trouble.
It was a way to keep a working system when the switch to gcc 3 and kde 3
left unstable very broken a few times.
I used it as a recovery partition, when bad memory trashed the one I was
using.
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