Recommended sizes for file system

[Michael A. Peters]

On 11/21/2004 11:39:36 AM, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:50 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > On Saturday 20 November 2004 17:41, Chris Jones wrote:
> > > > My question is what are the best partition sizes I should  
> adopt,
> > >
> > > If it works, one big partition, swap to a file.
> > >
> > > If your hardware is pickly about where it loads the kernel
> > from, then /boot of
> > > 100 Mb ((or whatever fc docs say).
> > >
> > > Swap to a file, not to a partition.
> >
> > I agree about the partitioning. The habit of splitting things into
> > various partitions came from large multi-user systems where it has
> > definite advantages.
> 
> The only reason I could think of for splitting partitions is to
> preserve
> user data in the event of a fresh installation.  It is convenient to
> be able
> to wipe out the / partition and install fresh while leaving  
> partitions
> like
> /home alone.
> 
> That being said, I've never done it myself because running out of
> space is a
> worse problem in my opinion.

Big drive - 10GB is overkill for / and still leaves plenty for swap and
/home.
You can do fresh installs and keep /home with all its setting etc.  
Really nice.