| Art Alexion on 8 Jan 2011 03:05:25 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Linux n00b question |
On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:06 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote: > On 01/05/2011 08:56 AM, Steve Slaughter wrote: >> To save money, I only bought a 1 TB HDD. >> >> What, in your opinion, is the best way to partition this drive? > > I use a small swap partition, / partition, and a very large /home. > On my netbook with one 8, and one 32 GB drive, I put Ubuntu / on the 8 GB drive and /home on the 32. I haven't encountered any problems with the 8 filling up. With a TB, you could probably go with 20 for /. I use 2X physical ram as a rule of thumb for /swap. If you do something like this, store your VMs in /home. Older Linux practices were to put /var /etc /opt & /usr/local in their own partitions. There is good reason to consider the last 3, but in those days of smaller hard drives and consequently smaller partitions, it could get tricky. -- Art Alexion ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug