Digby Tarvin wrote: > I have just about sorted out Debian on my laptop to the point where I > am ready to do a final permanent install, so I now need to decide on > a good final partitioning scheme. > > I want to be able to run two unix/linux systems side by side, so I want to > keep shareable partitions (such as home, swap and tmp) separate from > distribution specific ones (root and usr). The parallel operating system > provision means I can evaluate other distributions, as well as upgrade > to new releases while keeping the previous one available for a while. > > I also plan to keep the bundled operating system in case it ever needs > service and to test new hardware before trying to get Linux driver working. > > My traditional partitioning scheme is to have /var for all changing system > data and /home for changing user data, and ideally these are the only > partitions mounted r/w - which means these are the only partitions that > need regular backup. They can also usually be mounted nosuid and nodev > to improve security. /usr is fairly static and mounted read-only. The > root filesystem is small and changes infrequently so gets backed up in > full but less often. > > 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 > > With this scheme I am only losing 3-5GB in order to have the parallel > distribution installed, if I am estimating the size requirements > correctly. > > I'm not sure if I should have a separate /tmp filesystem, or perhaps > should just add the space to swap and use a ramfs for tmp. > > I'm also not really decided if I should use a separate /boot partition > with both sets of kernels in it, or just use /boot directories in the > two root filesystems. The latter implies that one of the root filesystems > becomes special in that it will be the one pointed to by the master > boot record. > > Any thoughts or suggestions? > > Regards, > DigbyT Why bother with two side-by-side installs? Just use Xen and then you can run multiple Linux (or BSD) domU's. Of course, you will still need a separate partition for windows. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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