Hi All,

Just wanted to run this partition scheme by the forum to see if this looks okay or if there are any snags that I'm not seeing. I'd rather correct it now than have it bite me later. I have a 2 tb hard drive and have installed Debian Squeeze. At the manual partition section during install, I created the following ext 4 file system partitions:

1. 500 mb /boot (primary)
2. 14 gb / (primary)
3. 10 gb swap (primary) 4 gb RAM
4. 1.75+ tb /home (logical)


Thanks Much,

ab

The root partition seems a little large. But then again, I am not an expert in partitioning.

Hi,

First, I don't think you will need so much swap; I have 4gb of RAM, and I only have 2 gb of swap (and the system rarely uses it). Second, I don't understand what you wrote for the home partition (the 1.75 part). If it's only 1.75gb, I would suggest to make it considerably bigger, at least 10 gb. My /home partition has 57gb, and now it's used at 63%. Of course, it all depends on the use you will give to this system, and how many files you plan to save in it, but, IMO, it's better to have a /home partition with a considerable size.

Other than that, your partitioning scheme looks fine to me.

edit: Forgot to say: I would make them all logical, in case you decide to add other partitions in the future (for data, distro hoping, etc).

Sorry. /home is the remainder of the hard drive. That should read 1.75+ tb, so yeah, there's plenty of room. Thanks for the help guys.

-ab

I tend to go by the KISS principle nowadays so my partitioning scheme for every desktop/laptop related is simple and is like this.
/ 10GB (15 -20GB if you are going to install absolutely everything).
SWAP 2GB
/home the rest.

I used to have seperate discs for different partition mount points such as /boot and /usr etc. but realistically all you will need is /, SWAP, and /home. Thus the KISS principle.

Thanks k3lt01,

I agree, best to KISS. The majority of space consideration will be the storing of media files and photos by users. If stored in their home directories, I'm assuming these files and photos will eat space from /home, no? That's why I wanted it to be so big.

-ab

Yep that's correct, so maximising /home is what you want to do.

Excellent. Thanks again.

ab

I use 50gig for home sounds good enough for me.