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of course, you have to use device files and filesystems appropriate to your system. the other 3 columns, "defaults," "1," and "2" should be fine because both these lines are generated for me by slack.
i use a home partition of ~ 5 GB, but it's your own preference.
as far as how much space to allocate to your /home directory, I use about 4 gigs and have a separate partiton for music, docs movies etc. ( I dual boot win2k so this partiton fat32 and is visible in both slack and windoze)You might want to start small, and leave some open space at the end to expand it if you need to.
IF you decide to run a Server, it's best to put /var
on it's own partition, that way the logs that are generated
DON't fill up the / partition............and make /var plenty big if
you do..........
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