Re: Minimum size for /home?
The laptop in use here has a 40 GB hard drive. Part of that is
taken up by a hidden recovery partition. If I had 320 GB of hard
drive space, I'd be less concerned with allocation.
The use of this laptop includes OpenOffice (word processing,
spreadsheet and a little database), Scribus (DTP), Gimp, Internet
mail and browsing, etc. To put this in perspective, I'll plug in
some sizes in the proposed layout that's evolved in response to
this discussion:
hda1 ---------- 6 GB -------WinXP
hda2 ---------------------- extended
hda3 ------- 8 GB ------ / for first distro
hda4 ------- 1 GB ------ /home for first distro
hda5 ------- 8 GB ------ / for second distro
hda6 --------1 GB ------ /home for second distro
hda7 ------ 10 GB ------ shared data partition
hda8 ------- 1 GB ------ swap
Windows (which gets used a couple of times per year) is taking up
too much space here. I should probably eliminate the recovery
partition and put the space to a better use.
Thanks to all who offered advice. I appreciate your input.
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