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> PARTITIONING? DON'T GO OVERBOARD
> Many of the available books on Linux, including the more authoritative
> ones, advise Linux users to create several separate partitions when
> Linux is first installed. Typically, readers are advised to create
> separate disk partitions for /(the root partition), /home, /usr/local,
> /opt, and /var. Is this good advice? Maybe--and maybe not.
>
> The advantage of separate partitions becomes evident when you upgrade
> or reinstall the OS; you can exclude some of the existing partitions so
> that the data they contain isn't overwritten during the upgrade or
> installation process. For example, if you've stored applications in
> /opt and /usr/local, you can exclude these partitions from the
> installation process, and your software is still available after the
> upgrade. If you've created a separate partition for /var, the files it
> contains, such as mail archives, are also preserved after an upgrade or
> reinstallation. So the argument for separate partitions is a good one,
> especially for /home--after all, you don't want the upgrade or
> installation utility to overwrite your user files.
>
> But there are risks with multiple partitions, too. If the partitions
> are too small, you'll run out of space within the partition even though
> there's plenty of free space elsewhere on the drive. Unfortunately,
> many Linux applications don't cope well when there's no longer space
> available for temporary or other needed files. Unless you have a truly
> enormous hard drive, you may be better off with a simple partitioning
> scheme: one huge root (/) partition of at least 2 GB, and a /home
> partition of at least 1 GB. Above all, don't fall into the trap of
> allocating too little space for the root (/) partition; you'll need at
> least 200 MB to avoid showstopping errors.
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