Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

[marc racal <mafracal@gmail.com>]

On 5/9/05, Lian Liming <lianliming@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I have 35 GB hard disk space for installing debian/ustable.I am a
> common linux user and would like to do some web programming that means
> I need X winodows with KDE and LAMP(linux, apache, mysql, php). To
> limit damage upon system crash and better use the hard disk space, I
> want to know something for the partition strategy.
> 
>     Which directories should I separate from the "/", should I
> separate "/usr", "/var", "/tmp", "/home".... ? And then, how many GBs
> should i give to these partitions?
> 
>    It is really welcome that someone can share their partition
> strategy with brief explanation why they did so.
> 
>    Thanks for any suggestions.

hi lian,

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html

hope this helps.

marc