[wellylug] Finally going to do it .. only ...

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 09:28, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> After fighting with Windows 2000 Internet Connection Sharing, Zonealarm 
> and Mdaemon last weekend, I've gone and I've splashed out on a processor 
> and RAM upgrade and went and bought a 120GB disk.  I'm going to leave my 
> 40GB to dual boot Windows 95 and 2k.
> 
> Now way back, it was simple FAT, and then FAT32 and then FAT32 or NTFS - 
> now about to put linux onto my workstations I must admit I'm at a bit of a 
> loss on how to partition 120GB and what filesystem(s) to use.
> 
> This has been done to death I think before and hell I though what's 
> another flame war amongst friends :-)
> 
> 
> ** How do people partition their large drives and what file systems do 
> they use?
> 
> 
> ** Do you plan the purpose of a partition and then choose a filesystem or 
> do you have filesystem that is used on all partitions?
> 

with partitioning, here's my rule.

ROOT: 2-5 GB (Depends on size of distro & amounts of apps you install)
SWAP: 1 GB   (You have so much space. Might as well make a large swap)
HOME: The rest of the space

The reason I like this so much, is that you can easily change, upgrade,
reinstall your distro, without wiping your home data each time. If you
have it all on 1 partition, you will have to copy the home data back
each time after the distro install - and if it's a few gig, it's going
to take a long time (over LAN or USB).

I don't have a boot partition, as I really don't see the need. With the
swap partition, since you have so much space, use a 1 GB swap.

For the filesystem, it's really up to your likes and system needs. I use
ext3, mainly because I've never used anything else & ext3 works well for
me.


anyway, I hope this helps,


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