thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
now i'm thinking:
/ 100M
/usr 3G
/tmp 100M
/var 3G
swap 384M
/home rest
a couple questions more:
- i need to make / bootable, right?
- i don't think i need a /usr/local, as i don't think i usually
download and compile a lot from non-debian sources ... but i might
be wrong on that one. what do most people have in theirs?
now, what i'm most confused on:
- if i can only have 3 primary partitions if i want more than 4
partitions total, do i just designate the first three (/, /usr, and
/tmp) as the primary ones, and then just keep partitioning my merry
way along, designating all the rest to be logical? will that work,
or do i need to make four partitions, and somehow subdivide the last
one into the rest of the partitions i want? i think it's the former
and i'm just confusing myself ... please correct me if i'm wrong
here.
- i *do* need to specifically partition /home as its own partition,
right? yeah, okay, i do. and this can be the entire rest of the
disk? i don't need to leave anything left over? or should i, just
as some sort of security backup, in case i were to need to
repartition ... or is that not even an option?
thanks again, all!
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