[plug] Debian - how many partitions?

[James Elliott]

Thanks Lyndon, Leon, Craig. Trevor and Tony for your excellent replies.  I
have saved them and will consutl them as I go.

Once again, many thanks.

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyndon Kroker" <ljkroker at netvigator.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Debian - how many partitions?


> 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?
>
>
>