Keith Hunt writes: > I'm looking for a little advice on setting up FC5 on a brand new machine. I > am pretty sure some of you folks don't mind giving advice... > > I have always configured *nix systems with the standard (well, OK, sort of > standard) set of separate filesystems, trying to predict how much space I > will need for each. It usually works out OK albeit with some wasted space > here and there. Once in a while I have had to repartition things and that is > obviously a pain. > > Are there any compelling reasons to do that anymore or should I just make > one big partition? I am talking about a couple pretty big SATA drives in > probably a RAID 1 configuration. > Anymore I create three partitions, / swap, and /home. The /home persists across reinstalls of FC, as new releases come out. Any content I want to keep across installs, e.g. /usr/local, or /var/www/html, I just put under /home and bind mount to where the OS expects them. Janina > Thanks > -- > Keith > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org
