On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:17:33PM -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > 2. Depending on what you do, you may want to put all the extra > space in /home rather than /. For instance if you will create a lot > of data files (music, etc); make a 10-15GB / and everything else in /home. > You may however decide just to have on big / and no separate /home > partition at all (only do that for single-user systems). I find /home really useful on single-user systems too, since it makes doing wipe-and-reinstall upgrades very clean and basically painless. For similar reasons, I suggest making a separate /srv partition and put all of your non-transient server data there. > The other really BIG thing that you'll want to do to insure that you > can continue to upgrade easily is to put almost everything under LVM > (logical volume manager). Only the /boot partition should be a real > partition (/dev/hda0). Then allocate the rest of the drive as one big > ~200GB LVM partition. All the other filesystems/swap are then put > inside the LVM (called "logical volumes" rather than "partitions"). Yes, excellent advice. This'll make your first guess much less critical. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
