On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:10:36, Weaver wrote: > > > > How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if > > one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong several > > times and so have many others. > > That depends on the size of the drive. > > I make a / partition, a swap that is twice the size of RAM - on this box, > 4 GB, and the rest is just assigned to home. > > That way the drive size is the only limiting factor. Exactly. It will be very difficult to come up with a recipe that works for hardware still in use. My father is running Debian on a PII-333 MHz with a 6 GiB HDD. AFAIR I did create a separate /home (can't check right now), but I did the install and could make a good guess about the needed space. There is also much newer hardware that is space limited. AFAIR some of the first Asus EEE devices only had 8 GiB flash. > If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal a > bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest as /home > and copy it over. Assuming this is possible (BIOS limitations, etc.) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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