> During the installation you get to partition the drive. The program Disk
> Druid does this and you tell it which mount points are assigned to which
> partitions (eg. partition 1 (hdb1) /, partition 2 (hdb2) /usr, etc.). If
> your just beginning, I found it easier to just throw everything on one
> partition. Maybe it's not as secure and there are reasons to break up the
> drive, but there's reasons not to as well. For instance, what if you don't
> partition enough space? Then you either need to delete files or reinstall
> and rework the partitions meaning you lose all your data. Basically, if
> you're just starting, use one partition and just mount /.
I am actually pretty happy to read this as I, being far from a genuine pro,
just mounted my 10 gigs on / and have a happy snoring system by having
done so :)
(On the other hand, I could have given /, /var, /tmp and /home a gig and
assign
the rest to /usr, but nobody was counting :)
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With kind regards,
Marco
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