[LUNI] Look for some partitioning recommendations

[Samir Faci]

Just one I've been using, not necesserly the best one.

/boot  32M... maybe more if you want a lot of kernels
/        32GB
/var/   everything else
/tmp   shm
/var/tmp  shm  (I've seen this put in as shm, though if you're not in
gentoo, I don't think it's used too much)
none      swap.

In my case I keep /home in /var/data   so I would do a symlink  /home to
/var/data/home   and vmware images would go under /var as well... most of
the size intensive data seems to be in /var except for /usr/local, you can
increase that size if you'd like.

This layout works great for me, under gentoo, just my 2 cents.

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Samir

On 10/29/07, Michael Salsman <msalsman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have just purchased a 120 GB drive for my Dell D610, and I am trying
> to figure out the best way to partition the drive, so that my user data
> is preserved as I dink around with different distros.
>
> Generally the types of things that I want to preserve are:
>
> VMWare images
> typical personal stuff ...  music, photos, videos
> 3rd party product installs that do not require any particular paths
> (typically non-RPM).
>
> Which partitions/directories tend to be overwritten by different
> distros, and what could I hope to keep?  I would expect that /opt and
> /home would be okay, with the thought of mounting them to the / partition.
>
> I would want to keep the main distro partition/directories around 10 GB,
> and then throw the rest to swap and my other stuff.
>
> Any and all thoughts greatly appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
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