Posted: 2/27/2009 7:21:58 AM EDT
| Getting ready to reinstall Ubuntu (dedicated, not dual boot) and I want to partition the hard drive correctly. I have read to at least put /home on its own partition. Question is, what else should I do and what size partitions to use? Lots of suggestions on teh internet, but how would you partition this thing for desktop use? |
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These days I just make it all one big root partition.
I used to go wild with separate partitions for everything, but you always end up running out of space somewhere. A separate /home can be useful if you plan on upgrading by blowing away the / partition or switching distributions. But as long as you have good backups (you do have good backups, right?) it doesn't matter. If you really feel the need, give the OS around 20G or so and use the rest as /home |
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Quoted: I have all of that stuff on my computer and it's still less than 6GB. I'm running Linux Mint 64./boot 128mb / 25gb /home * /swap 8gb openoffice, X11, mozilla crap, gimp, etc will eat root partition space quick. make it at least 25. Having / and /home separtate will save you from coruption, but not a platter crash. ymmv |
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Quoted: Quoted: I have all of that stuff on my computer and it's still less than 6GB. <snip>/boot 128mb / 25gb /home * /swap 8gb openoffice, X11, mozilla crap, gimp, etc will eat root partition space quick. make it at least 25. Having / and /home separtate will save you from coruption, but not a platter crash. ymmv Same. |
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I have all of that stuff on my computer and it's still less than 6GB. I'm running Linux Mint 64.
/boot 128mb / 25gb /home * /swap 8gb openoffice, X11, mozilla crap, gimp, etc will eat root partition space quick. make it at least 25. Having / and /home separtate will save you from coruption, but not a platter crash. ymmv True... but this is not the days of 6 mb drives... with drives reaching 1tb, it is ok to throw a few gb around. I stand by my 25g |