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cyrusearl : 12/07/02 08:44 PM : Incident created -   When I was sharing my HD with another OS, The Linux install would choose partitions by default that were [ /boot and / ]. Now that I am using the entire drive for Linux, the default is[ /home, swap and / ] . Am I to assume that the installation program will create a /boot partition without my configuring it to do so ? Also, is there an optimum amount of space that I should choose for /home and(or) / ? Is it necessary for me to have a /home partition at all ?
Linegod_7611 : 12/07/02 09:15 PM : Reply received -   All directories that are not specifically mounted on their own partition are created under '/'. You _always_ want a seperate partition for /home. In a worse case scenario, if your '/' partition or '/usr' partition became corrupt, you could reinstall the entire system while leaving '/home' untouched. On a 10G drive I would recommend: / 1G /usr 5G /swap = memory /home = remainder of drive ----- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this question.
tivolle : 12/07/02 09:22 PM : Reply received -   Linegod is right for a workstation. Another example for a smaller drive and notice VAR is also on its own partition because it is for a server web and MySQL. SysFichier Tail. Util.Disp. Uti% Monté sur /dev/hda1 240M 43M 185M 19% / /dev/hdb7 1.7G 1.5G 152M 91% /home /dev/hda6 1.3G 935M 286M 77% /usr /dev/hda7 581M 177M 375M 32% /var -- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this question.
gluna67 : 12/07/02 09:23 PM : Reply received -   well it depends, let me explain that having more that one partition either under linux or windows makes your life easier in case you need to recover your info from a hard disk failure. in my case i like to have more than one partitions under linux, but the space it is up to you, it depends on what you will store in those partitions, usually /home is for your linux users. i have a server with 40 gb of hard disk with the following partitions; /swap (a size double the amount of ram),/boot (70 mb), / (20 gig), /var (the rest of space). so saying that there is an optimum partitioning scheme under linux i believe there is not, but it is adviseable to have more than one partition under linux. and yes linux will create /boot if you tell it to install it automatically.
cyrusearl : 12/07/02 10:34 PM : More info provided -   THANKS
cyrusearl : 12/07/02 10:35 PM : Incident closed -   THANKS MUCH

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