On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Jason Dagit <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Paul J. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm putting a extra hard drive on my XP box which will be home to >> Ubuntu. I've been doing dual-boots since the mid-'90s, but haven't >> done a new Linux install for a few years. I would like to partition >> the Ubuntu drive to facilitate future distro upgrades, if the >> partition scheme makes any difference in that area. I remember >> something about having a dedicated /home partition to make upgrades easier. >> >> I'm a Linux hobbyist and enthusiast, so I'm asking about a partition >> scheme for a "home" user. >
Well ... I guess it depends on what your hobbies are relative to Linux. openSUSE defaults to a swap, a "/", and a "/home", but Debian and Ubuntu default to just a swap and a "/". Fedora defaults to some bizarre LVM configuration. My hobbies involve I/O testing, so I generally reserve a 128 MB "/boot" and a 10 - 20 GB chunk on the "outside" of the disk called "/data", which I can reformat at will with any filesystem I'm in the mood to test. Since I run openSUSE, the rest of the disk is "/" (20 GB by default), "/home" (the rest) and swap (some unknown function of RAM size.) I think multiple partitions are over-rated, though. If you're just a "typical Ubuntu user", take the default and enjoy the distro. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
