Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

[Anubhav Yadav <anubhav1691@gmail.com>]

> Defining "desktop" is the tricky bit (to some it only means where the
> box sits). In this instance I've assumed the OP means office apps, bit
> of gaming, internet apps - so I'd go go for a two slice setup, with a
> separate / and /home, with and a swap file. For a similar "desktop" in a
> business environment it'd be SOE rules so I would use more partitions
> (backup and rollout planning would be a nightmare otherwise - not to
> mention support contract negotiation headaches).
>

Hi, I would like to set up an environment for development and programming.
So I guess I will have to seperate out the /usr and / part and keep
/home on a different
partition too.

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Regards,
Anubhav Yadav
Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
Pune.