partition size

paddy · 03-21-2006, 11:09 AM

I'm afraid I might not be the first person to ask. I'd like to know what partition table you would recommend for a 40G harddrive (notebook). On my home system I currently have
2G swap (1G should be enough)
/ 10G (!)
/home rest

my main question is how big should the / partition be. I only use 2G out of 10. and as I'll mainly be doing word and image processing and some internet stuff, no games, I suppose 5G should be sufficient. or is that cutting my own throat?
also, is there anything notebook-specific I should know?

help appreciated. thanks, pat

paddy · 03-21-2006, 11:09 AM

btw, I want to install kubuntu

Dragineez · 03-21-2006, 11:42 AM

It's a surprizingly effective philosophy. If you intend to use the entire drive for your install, then I see no reason to have / and /home in separate partitions. I'm sure there will be many purists who will argue the point, but I honestly don't see the logic in your case.

/boot 50mb
/swap 500mb (depending on RAM)
/ everything else

Use LVM, that way you can shrink the partition later if you feel you need to.

pixellany · 03-21-2006, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragineez

It's a surprizingly effective philosophy. If you intend to use the entire drive for your install, then I see no reason to have / and /home in separate partitions. I'm sure there will be many purists who will argue the point, but I honestly don't see the logic in your case.

/boot 50mb
/swap 500mb (depending on RAM)
/ everything else

Use LVM, that way you can shrink the partition later if you feel you need to.

Concur....
In fact, you don't even need the separate partition for /boot.
KISS---don't create complexity unless to solve a problem.

Dragineez · 03-21-2006, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pixellany

In fact, you don't even need the separate partition for /boot.

DOH! You're right - having a bit of a blonde moment.

paddy · 03-21-2006, 04:11 PM

fine. didn't even think of creating an extra boot partition. but why wouldn't I want an extra system partition? don't you think I might want to install a different distro or something at some point or something? or is that too much windows mentality?
thanks anyway

mikejac69 · 03-21-2006, 05:15 PM

Just to add my two (€)

, I would always advise having a seperate /home partition simply as I have Borked things a few times too many and it is great to have all my files sage and sound, and know I can re-format / without losing anything! Also I keep all my config files in /home so I can just copy them back over straight away. Must get around to writing a script to do that for me, but not killed system in months now...

As for Root, I have Edubuntu installed on my schools computers and they only have 6 Go Hdds so yes, 5 Go / space would be fine in my opinion, if you change your mind with games and stuff, mine mostly install under /home anyway!