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Originally Posted by WingZero
Hi all,
I am goign to buy myself e new pc and am wondering what the best way is to parition my two 1terra Hd's?
1 terra is going to be /home/name/video
but the other one is going to be the root os
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For a typical desktop machine, this would usually mean that you would probably be using less than 5% on that disk, and even that is an exaggeration unless you are an intensive gamer and plan to install a lot of big games in /
A tipical linux installation for a desktop can take somewhere between 4-10gb, it can be less, it could be more depending on what do you install and how do you use your machine.
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but i do not know how mych i need to have for my
"/"
"/tmp"
"/boot"
etc..
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If you really don't know, I suggest you to make a 10-20 gb partition for /, allocate some swap, and use the rest for /home, which is where you want the space to be (or so it seems to me).
And forget about all these extra partitions until you have a clearer vision about what they are used for, and anyway the size for them can vary greatly depending on how do you use your box (for example, a mail or printing server usually would require a big /var partition).
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Also the swap partition is a blury thing, because i;ve read that it is best for the swap to be twice as big as the physical memor, but i will have 12gig of phisycal memory, so i don't think i will need to have 24 gig of swap do i?
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Rules without base, much less nowadays. The size of swap you want will depend greatly on the task at hand, but in any case, by the time your system is swapping a few gb's you really need more ram because it will become completely unresponsive.
In any case, don't give this much thought, you can always use a swap file later, and add as many as them as you need them dynamically on the fly.
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Also for the root some say 10gig is more than enough, but i will install quite a lot on wine or other general programs so is 10 eneough? keep in mind the hd is 1terra and another terra for videos.
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All the stuff you install with wine goes to your home directory (you should really never use wine as root, that's asking for trouble).