I want to know what partition scheme that everyone uses.. so please post your partition scheme and please give some description why you use your partition scheme...

Thank's before... and sorry for my english...

I have 2 x 80Gb drives

hda1 = 1 Gb swap
hda5 = 10 Gb /
hda6 = 10 Gb spare
hda7 = 59 Gb /home

hdb1 = 1 Gb swap
hdb5 = 79 Gb /data

Note: The first partition on both drives is a 'primary' partition. The rest are logical partitions under an extended partition. Why? Because it was done yonks ago.

This scheme works for me. I can upgrade to a new version of Slackware on the spare partition and don't have to move my /home partition. I keep all my static data on the /data partition. 'df' reports over 70 Gigs free, so it'll be a while before I need to upgrade...

BTW - I read that it is more efficient to run 2 swap partitions if you have 2 drives, so that's why I've done that.

I have 2 HDD SATA and PATA @ 120 Gb
linux is on PATA
hda1 13gb / (root)
hda5 95gb /home (data)
hda6 1gb /swap
hda7 9gb /others (backup)

and my sata for Win$$$
sda1 20gb /winC (system)
sda5 98gb /winD (data)

this scheme always satisfied me everytime I make new installation for distro testing

Ninja_212

No apologies necessary; your English is better than my Indonesian(!)

First, swap partition should be either RAM*1 or RAM*2

Your root partition should be able to accomodate /bin /boot /dev /etc /proc /sbin /sys - the essentials -- the basics

That's well under a 1/2 GB

edit: ignore the 'a' that's supposed to be "A lot less than 1 or 2 GB"

The rest is up to you - it really depends on the space you have available, and how you want to use it.

Perhaps if you could be more clear about your intentions, available HW etc?

An 80gb WD hard drive. All distros use / for everything but swap. It may not total 80gb but that's how it mostly is. Debian Sid is my main OS and I use its Grub to load all distros.

It's a long story on why mine is setup like it is, but I started off always trying different distros and lately these are the one's I've kept for awhile.

/dev/hda1 = Winxp-10gb
/dev/hda3 = FreeBSD-10gb
/dev/hda4 = Extended
/dev/hda5 = Vfat32-20gb
/dev/hda6 = Ubuntu-10gb
/dev/hda7 = Swap-350mb
/dev/hda8 = Debian-10gb
/dev/hda9 = Mepis-10gb
/dev/hda10 = SourceMage-5gb

/dev/hda1 /boot (167M) ext2
/dev/hda2 swap (900M)
/dev/hda3 / (9,4G) reiserfs
/dev/hda5 /home (19G) reiserfs
/dev/hda6 /var/backups (18G) xfs
/dev/hda7 /srv/xmule (14G) xfs
/dev/hda8 /srv/www (4,7G) reiserfs
/dev/hda9 /srv/docs (9,4G) reiserfs
/dev/hda10 /srv/videos (54G) xfs

I prefer xfs filesystem for partition that contains large files and reiserfs
for others, I keep a separate partition for /boot in ext2 as I have grub and
find it more convenient as this (grub has to read the filesystem to
load the kernel image)

This is my setup for my main linux desktop (used for ordinary desktop work for a single user, not really specialised for admin use).

Two hard disks:

hda1 - 10Gb /
hda2 - 23Gb /home
hda3 - 23Gb data
hda4 - 23Gb data

hdb1 - 10Gb / backup (useful when upgrading between kernels, slackware's etc.)
hdb2 - 34Gb data
hdb3 - 34Gb data
hdb4 - 34Gb data

I find having 10Gb for root is enough so long as you don't go too mad installing software on root (my largest apps are Crossover apps but they get stored inside home directories with my setup... if you were to set up a shared system you could easily hit 10Gb, just like you could with Windows itself).

Having a backup root drive that's the same size as the main root drive, on another hard drive, is invaluable. A quick cp and you can backup all your apps and settings to the other drive, an entry in lilo will let you boot from it. This is lovely for things like large slackware version jumps / kernel tryouts which need new userspace tools / new KDE versions etc. in that you can copy your existing system to the backup drive/partition, boot from it, use upgradepkg / swaret from there and check everything works, then copy it straight back over your existing / if it works well (changing lilo and fstab obviously).

Doing it often enough means that you always have a spare root lying around that's only a few months old should you need it and, if done properly, on a seperate drive. Marvellous for diagnostics when a drive fails, lifesaver for desktops when things play up.

All partitions are primary partitions (limited to 4 per drive).

*applause*

Now that's talent. Windows, FreeBSD and Linux on the same HD - talk about a snake pit. I am in awe...

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 92M 56M 31M 65% /
/dev/hda1 23M 4.1M 18M 19% /boot
/dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.5G 59% /usr
/dev/hda6 19G 4.5G 13G 27% /home
/dev/hda7 14G 3.3G 9.8G 25% /save



df does not list swap but it is on /dev/hda2 @ 500 megs

I want to install Linux but i'm still searching for the right partition scheme for my system.. the space that i have for linux (Slackware) is 8GB.. i'm dual booting with Window$ XP.. please give me some suggestion what partition scheme that is fit for me..

Rembering that i only have 8GB for Linux... any suggestion would be very appriciated...

Thank's before

When space is tight, it's best to put everything on one partition under /. Then you won't have to worry about allocating too little of the available space to /usr or /home or /var or whatever. But don't forget to leave some space for a swap partition too!

My scheme is:
and hda5 is a 2Gb swap partition

160 GB HDD

hda2 and hda3 are for old data; possibly future *BSD slice.

20 partitions maximum. I tried another scheme with more than 20 -- got installation errors trying to put /var on a high-numbered partition.

MB units

hda1 00200 /boot
hda2 27000 /cold
hda3 27000 /gold
_________________________
** hda4 START EXTENDED LOGICAL **
_________________________
hda5 01000 Linux swap
_________________________
Slackware 10.2
35 GB

hda6 03000 /
hda7 10000 /usr
hda8 01000 /var
hda9 01000 /tmp
hda10 20000 /home

_________________________
Slackware 11.0
35 GB

hda11 03000 /
hda12 10000 /usr
hda13 01000 /var
hda14 01000 /tmp
hda15 20000 /home
_________________________
Slackware 11.1
35 GB

hda16 03000 /
hda17 10000 /usr
hda18 01000 /var
hda19 01000 /tmp
hda20 20000 /home
_________________________

I just have one HD in my system, a meager 19GB.... And it is a dual boot 2KPRO/Slack10.0

hda1 NTFS partition, 7GB
hda2 ReiserFS partition 6.0GB
hda3 FAT32 for sharing between windows/linux 5GB
hda4 swap 1GB

Maybe you had to create the necessary hda* device files in /dev
Theorically you should be able to use up to 64 partitions