Help in Partitioning the Disk

Thomas Taylor linxt at comcast.net
Sun Jun 19 06:45:57 UTC 2005


On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:54, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On 6/18/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 11:11 -0700, Ravinder Siriseni wrote:
> > > Hai all !!!!!!!!! I worked on the Linux. I have used the redhat series
> > > and now i want to shift to the fedora core series ........Though i
> > > know that i am very late in working in the New versions of
> > > fedora ....... can any one plzz help me out the best way that i can
> > > partition the disk of 160 GB on fedora core 3 .
> >
> > ----
> > The installer will do that for you
>
> I think he might have been asking for "best practices" in
> partitioning, not the actual mechanics.  I would recommend putting the
> /home directory on a separate partition, just to make future
> upgrades/installations less painful.
>
> Depending on what you install, your / partition could be as small as a
> couple of gigs, but since you have a big drive, I'd recommend going
> with about 20GB for / -- more if you're planning on running a database
> or something (and if you are, you might want to put /var in a separate
> partition too).  Once you've determined that, use the rest of the
> space for /home -- it's probably where most of your data will go.
>
> Of course, these are just recommendations.  Everyone has their own
> personal partitioning scheme.
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Another thing to consider is a partition for saving downloads and critical 
files in the event that you have to re-install or re-partition.  This also 
helps if a yum (or apt) upgrade changes configuration files in /etc since I 
store a copy of /etc under /source/etc.  Obviously, if you need/want to 
reinstall, these partitions should NOT be formatted.

Tom

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