what about partition

ahmed gamal · 04-02-2006, 09:15 AM

hi every body
i have slack 10.2
i have / and swap only
i want to make partions to save programs and my data
can i make it or shall i reinstall it
i want partition like /home
/var
i have 15 gb for linux
what is the suitable size for them

ckoniecny · 04-02-2006, 09:45 AM

I would store all of your data in the /home partition. In something like /home/Data. The reason for this is when you upgrade your system, the home partition is left intact (As long as /home is an actual partition and not part of /). If you have 15GB to work with for your Linux install, I would give 10GB to /home, 1GB for /swap (Amount of memory * 2) and use the remaining space for /. I hope this helps.

Alien_Hominid · 04-02-2006, 09:49 AM

To resize partitions you can use http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

ahmed gamal · 04-02-2006, 09:56 AM

then what about /var and /boot
and what is it for

phil.d.g · 04-02-2006, 10:01 AM

For a simple desktop system you don't need separate partitions for /var and /boot. If you want to know what the different directories are used for then `man hier`

TSquaredF · 04-02-2006, 10:03 AM

When I was dual booting, I had a seperate partition, formatted vfat, mounted under /mnt by fstab, so I could share data between the two OSes. When I erased WinXP, I reformatted my data partition to ext3, but kept it seperate, that makes it easier when the wife takes over the machine. Also, having all the data in one place makes it much simpler to back up.
Regards,
Bill

onebuck · 04-02-2006, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahmed gamal

hi every body
i have slack 10.2
i have / and swap only
i want to make partions to save programs and my data
can i make it or shall i reinstall it
i want partition like /home
/var
i have 15 gb for linux
what is the suitable size for them

Hi,

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ahmed gamal · 04-02-2006, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ckoniecny

I would store all of your data in the /home partition. In something like /home/Data. The reason for this is when you upgrade your system, the home partition is left intact (As long as /home is an actual partition and not part of /). If you have 15GB to work with for your Linux install, I would give 10GB to /home, 1GB for /swap (Amount of memory * 2) and use the remaining space for /. I hope this helps.

thanx very much i make what u told and it was fine