Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?
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On 04/04/07 03:04, Wei Chen wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
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>> I _always_ put /home on its own partition if nothing else.
>
> I do not put /home on a separate partition because I never know how much
> space I need for personal files and how much space I need for system
> files. If I have another physical disk, I'd rather put backups on it.
I *strongly* urge you to put /home on a separate partition.
Why? If you ever have to do a scratch install, the installer will
init / (that's where /home lives if it's not on a separate
partition) and *poof* goes all your data.
I've found that a 20GB root partition gives you *ample* room for /
and a couple of 1GB swap *files*. Give the rest to /home.
OR make /home 8-9 GB and then create a /data/01 partition which
fills up the rest of the disk. Extra disks, manage with LVM and
call them /data/02.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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