Re: large HD partition plan
gary turner wrote:
> 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.
Even in the old time, I don't think "partition plans" were much good, it
depends a lot on the planned use.
You can use LVM, this way you can change the partitioning relatively
easily if you need more space in a specific partition.
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