On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote: > > > > I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the > > 'Newbie Install'. > > How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if > one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong several > times and so have many others.
That's why I install everything to one partition and use external partitions for high amounts of data. > And no, LVM doesn't really make things easier either for someone who has no > idea > about partitions. IMO LVM comes with absolutely no advantages, but many drawbacks. I'm only using it with VBox for entertainment. Some people play computer games for entertainment, I use LVM for entertainment, but don't play computer games. IMO LVM isn't good for serious usage. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347533559.1265.45.camel@localhost.localdomain
