On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > You've also left off a recovery partition. I keep a 256 MiB - 512 > MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept.
I would go farther than that. My preferred setup is to have enough space to completely install twice. That way if I decide to reinstall or make a major upgrade, the other one is there for recovery. Here's mine .... / 250 mb /usr 5 gig /tmp 250 mb /var 1 gig (cache fills up occasionally) /home /alt 250 mb /alt/usr 5 gig /alt/var 1 gig /alt/home The /alt stuff has helped many times. It was a way that I could try Debian without losing my old Mandrake system. It was a way that I could switch to unstable, while keeping stable in case of trouble. It was a way to keep a working system when the switch to gcc 3 and kde 3 left unstable very broken a few times. I used it as a recovery partition, when bad memory trashed the one I was using. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
