Re: partitioning for dual-linux..
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote:
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
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> >This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60GB drive on my
> >Debian laptop:
> > XP -10.00GB
> > boot - 0.10GB ??
> > sys 1
> > root - 0.15GB
> > usr - 2.00GB
> > var - 2.00GB
> > sys 2
> > root - 0.15GB
> > usr - 2.00GB
> > var - 2.00GB
> > shared
> > swap - 1.00GB
> > tmp - ramfs?
> > home -10.00GB
> > home2 -10.00GB
> > local -20.00GB
> >
> Three comments I can make so far:
> 1) Why the two home directories? If you keep your /etc/passwd and
> /etc/groups in sync, you should not have issues between the two /home's.
> (Then again, conflicts between multiple versions of gnome or kde, etc,
> could be an issue - how about a "shared" space, and make /home just a
> gig each)
Oh no - I wasn't intending separate home directories for the two
systems. Everything in the region labelled 'shared' is as the name
implies...
It is just a personal convention that I keep a separate encrypted
home2 partition for sensitive stuff, which I only mount when needed.
> 2) It is possible that each distro will trample over "its" /boot, so it
> would probably be best to use separate /boot paritionsn, plus grub.
True, but if I am going to have a separate boot directory for each
system, why bother with a separate partition rather than just keeping
them as part of the root partition?
> What difference does 50MB make, anyway?
> 3) Consider LVM.
I am, but am still unsure. I have heard of people having used it
and regretting it - but perhaps that was earlier in its development.
Is it generally considered to be robust now?
Regards,
DigbyT
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