Hi, I'm wondering what tricks do you use when you are creating partition schemes for your laptop or desktop... I install Fedora on different laptops, with disks usually with 80-160GB of disk space. Lets take 120GB for example. If I would like to make partition scheme that is diverse, dynamic, flexible and secure how would you accomplish that? Let me expand on what I mean: diverse - so that I can have multiple Linux (maybe even windows) distros installed dynamic and flexible - so that I can remove partitions, add new ones, reduce and expand existing partition (doex ext4 support reducing and expanding parititons or is XFS better ?) with as less hassle as possible secure - to encrypt /home partition, maybe even "/" partition for safety and privacy With 120GB available and with this ideas in mind would this partition scheme work or you have better ideas: sda1 ; /boot ; 200MB ; ext3 ; fedora boot sda2 ; / ; 10GB ; ext4 ; root partition for fedora sda3 ; / ; 10GB ; ext4 ; root for ubuntu (it doens't need extra /boot partition) sda5; 100GB ; extended partiton sda6; 20GB ; PV_1 for LVM (LVM physical volume) sda7; 20GB ; PV_2 for LVM sda8; 20GB ; PV_3 for LVM sda9; 20GB ; PV_4 for LVM sda10; 20GB ; PV_5 for LVM then I combine PV_1 - PV_5 physical volumes for my home I can have upto 100GB /home partition or if needed I can reduce it to 40GB or even 20BG. And I have more "leg room" for other interesting partitions, right? I could also work without sda2 for fedora "/" or use sda2 for some other system and move fedora "/" to same LV LVM as /home partition. Would you recommend I do that or how differently would you execute this? Do you have some tips for me? How do other distros work with LVM? Do they recognise it and play well with it? Can I use same /home partition for Fedora, Ubuntu and other distros? What if I put encryption on that logical volume that has /home partition, would Ubuntu and other work well with that? Does ext4 reduce and expand gracefully or should I use XFS if I'm going to do lot of resizing of my /home partition? Cheers! -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
