On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:43:50AM +0000, hicham wrote: > what 's the ideal partitionning for a workstation user ? > I've got a small /boot partition with 20 Mo aand the remaining for / 20MB may be too small for boot -- kernel updates can accumulate. I recommend making /home on a separate partition -- that way, if you want to reinstall, upgrade in a very clean way, or even switch distros, you can blow away the system partition and leave your user data alone. (Generally, this means a / of 4-8GB and the rest as /home.) > the reason I'm asking this is that it seems that everytime I have lot > of read write on the hard disk,( yum update for example) it "lags" or > stalls my pc How much memory do you have? You can maybe help performance some by rearranging your partitions, but except maybe in disk-specific benchmarks, the difference isn't usually going to be something you notice. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
