> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:50 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 November 2004 17:41, Chris Jones wrote:
> > > My question is what are the best partition sizes I should adopt,
> >
> > If it works, one big partition, swap to a file.
> >
> > If your hardware is pickly about where it loads the kernel
> from, then /boot of
> > 100 Mb ((or whatever fc docs say).
> >
> > Swap to a file, not to a partition.
>
> I agree about the partitioning. The habit of splitting things into
> various partitions came from large multi-user systems where it has
> definite advantages.
The only reason I could think of for splitting partitions is to
preserve
user data in the event of a fresh installation. It is convenient to
be able
to wipe out the / partition and install fresh while leaving partitions
like
/home alone.
That being said, I've never done it myself because running out of space is a worse problem in my opinion.
Big drive - 10GB is overkill for / and still leaves plenty for swap and
/home.
You can do fresh installs and keep /home with all its setting etc. Really nice.
