[plug] Debian - how many partitions?

[Lyndon Kroker]

Hi James,

If I have a relatively large hard disk I occasionally like to leave a small 
portion of the disk unused.  For example, I was installing Debian on a 60 gig 
drive recently and I left 2 gigs of space unused.  That way I had the option 
of playing around with all sorts of interesting stuff (vmware, other 
filesystems, journaling, and other nifty things).  The remaining 58 GB were 
more than sufficent for my purposes.

If you really want to use more that just two partitions, the /home partition 
is a great one to have separated on a personal workstation.  When I was 
playing around installing every flavour of Linux I could get my hands on, I 
just re-installed into my /swap and /root partitions and all the files in the 
/home directory were unaffected.  It's kind of a nice way to start "playing 
with partitions".

Have fun,

Lyndon




> 1.  one or two big partitions with lots of directories & subdirectories?
> or
> 2.  one partition for each major part of the Linux tree?