What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate
Joe Klemmer
klemmerj at webtrek.com
Wed Oct 25 18:01:41 UTC 2006
linux wrote:
> I want to install FC6 on my laptop. When I install I usually do a
> complete new install instead of an update. For example when going from
> FC4 to FC5, I did a new install. how can I partition my hd so that I
> can keep /home and not overwrite it? Do I make it a separate
> partition? What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?
There's probably as many partition schemes as there are people to think
of them. There isn't a consensus but some rules of thumb are around. I
will tell you my preferences and you can go from there when others post
theirs.
Desktop/Laptop
==============
/
/boot
/home
Server
======
/
/boot
/home
/usr
/usr/local
/var
/var/spool
And, OC, the swap partition on both.
One thing to remember when doing an "upgrade" by reinstalling is that
you might want to save /etc/* somewhere so you don't have to fight with
configuring everything again.
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