On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > <snip> > >This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60GB drive on my > >Debian laptop: > > XP -10.00GB > > boot - 0.10GB ?? > > sys 1 > > root - 0.15GB > > usr - 2.00GB > > var - 2.00GB > > sys 2 > > root - 0.15GB > > usr - 2.00GB > > var - 2.00GB > > shared > > swap - 1.00GB > > tmp - ramfs? > > home -10.00GB > > home2 -10.00GB > > local -20.00GB > > > Three comments I can make so far: > 1) Why the two home directories? If you keep your /etc/passwd and > /etc/groups in sync, you should not have issues between the two /home's. > (Then again, conflicts between multiple versions of gnome or kde, etc, > could be an issue - how about a "shared" space, and make /home just a > gig each)
Oh no - I wasn't intending separate home directories for the two systems. Everything in the region labelled 'shared' is as the name implies... It is just a personal convention that I keep a separate encrypted home2 partition for sensitive stuff, which I only mount when needed. > 2) It is possible that each distro will trample over "its" /boot, so it > would probably be best to use separate /boot paritionsn, plus grub. True, but if I am going to have a separate boot directory for each system, why bother with a separate partition rather than just keeping them as part of the root partition? > What difference does 50MB make, anyway? > 3) Consider LVM. I am, but am still unsure. I have heard of people having used it and regretting it - but perhaps that was earlier in its development. Is it generally considered to be robust now? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
