[plug] S.U.S.E 10 - Install - Partitioning

[Adam Hewitt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Furey
> Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 10:14 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] S.U.S.E 10 - Install - Partitioning
> 
> On 2/3/06, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > /               455 Mb  /dev/hda2
> > /boot   196 Mb  /dev/hda3
> > /usr    7,000 Mb        /dev/hda5
> > /var            1,000 Mb        /dev/hda6
> > /home   1,500 Mb        /dev/hda7
> > swap    1,000 Mb        /dev/hda8
> 
> I for one would make swap be the first partition, to put it 
> at the start of the disk (faster seek access time, I believe).
> 
> As Mike said, you really shouldn't need /boot either, or if 
> you do, you'd be hard-pressed to need more than ~25Mb IMHO 
> (and that's with half a dozen kernel images...)

Unless of course you use LVM, which shouldn't contain the /boot mount
point (unless you want to go down the initrd path which is insanely
painful but can sometimes be unavoidable). While I am at it I may as
well point out that LVM rocks and if you have issues/questions regarding
partitioning that you should setup all the partitions (except for /boot)
to be inside a logical volume, then you can adjust the size of them
whenever you see fit ;)

<SNIP>

Adam.