I have 60 Gigabyte want to use on ubuntu.

At this time I always use / and /swap for whole 60 gb.

The problem if / get trouble...I always lost all data in /home.

What a better partition to make more secure my data in /home?

PS: I heard that using 4 partition is much better (/, /home, /var and /swap)...but I have no idea how much space must be allocated for each partition.


Thanks anyway

well it depends,

if u have a large no. of documents and softwares, give /home atleast 10 GB
keep the swap partition as large as possible, this greatly enhances the speed of ubuntu....
if u want to add extra softwares give /var atleast 10-20 GB.

U can also make /home partition big, if u have many users like 10-15 GB
U can also give a separate partition /media to all ur music, videos etc..(20 GB)

You can, of course make as many partition as you like. Check the LQ wiki to find out what all those partitions are for.

If your only worry is the data in /home then read up on the required space for the full install of the distro of your choice (if it's a big one you're not likely to need a big % for additional packages you may want to install at a later time. To be on the safe side you could leave about 4-8Gb for /, whatever you need for swap and the rest for /home.

You could of course also leave some blank space at the end of the disk for future partition, especially to make it possible to test install another distro. 5Gb should be enough for such a test install, especially since you can use the /home partition for a user of the test install.

here is a good scheme for 60 gb of hd:

/ = 4 gb
/var = 4 gb
/opt = 2 gb
swap = 4 gb
/usr = 8 gb
/boot = 1 gb (room for many kernel upgrades)
/home = 37 gb (rest of space)

For a server maybe you want /var , for an office desktop not so sure. Yum is my biggest var 'consumer' and I don't clean up my yum cache a lot. At present (after at least 6 months of continuous upgrading) my /var uses 1.6Gb. My /opt only contains 85Mb (this is also very distro specific as the only thing that's in my /opt is java and that only because I decided to put it there).

Swap 4Gb?? again, if this is a server you know what usage you have, but I have about 1Gb of swap and don't normaly use more than 200Mb (use 'free' to check your usage)

/boot: this is really [deleted] nonsense: I have a 100mb /boot partition, 5 kernels installed and 90mb free space!!

sorry, clicked twice

ok, i just always leave extra room

my workstation has 2gb ram and 14 gb swap, just because when i had 4 gb swap, i ran out a few times (image/video editing)

That's perfect for you, but hardly a standard setup, which, correct me if I'm wrong, ratmz was asking for.

Next time maybe you should explain why you use a different than 'standard' setup, and that way your additional info may help someone to make a better informed choice

hello...thanks before for your answers guys

I just need to save my data at home because always upgrade ubuntu to new release (including new kernel).

Every time when I upgraded to new release, I always backup to other computer on network. This things make me have much time to do upgrade to new fresh realease.

I think if I use many partition can make me easy to upgrade without worry about lost many data in /home.

Thanks.