ideal partitionning for a workstation user
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Apr 12 13:47:55 UTC 2005
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:43:50AM +0000, hicham wrote:
> what 's the ideal partitionning for a workstation user ?
> I've got a small /boot partition with 20 Mo aand the remaining for /
20MB may be too small for boot -- kernel updates can accumulate.
I recommend making /home on a separate partition -- that way, if you want to
reinstall, upgrade in a very clean way, or even switch distros, you can blow
away the system partition and leave your user data alone. (Generally, this
means a / of 4-8GB and the rest as /home.)
> the reason I'm asking this is that it seems that everytime I have lot
> of read write on the hard disk,( yum update for example) it "lags" or
> stalls my pc
How much memory do you have? You can maybe help performance some by
rearranging your partitions, but except maybe in disk-specific benchmarks,
the difference isn't usually going to be something you notice.
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