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large HD partition plan



After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64.

Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my apps up and running. Space is needed for mirroring 3 or 4 web sites at a time; may be in /home/* or /var/www/

LAN servers, Apache, mail and MySQL will remain on the PIIIs.

All the HOWTOs, etc. that I've found talk about 2-10GB HDs, which were helpful in 2000 when I first installed Debian. I find them less so when looking at so much more space.

I will appreciate any and all suggestions for a partition plan, especially those where a rationale for the plan is included.

cheers,

gary
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