Duane Clark wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I think most users of disks more than a little under 20G would
> ultimately be
> unhappy with that. I think I'd skip separate /home if HD size less
> than 19G.
> So, something like this:
>
> less than 19G -> up to 1G swap, balance /
> 19G-35G -> 8G /, up to 2G swap, balance /home
> more than 35G -> 12G /, up to 4G swap, balance /home
>
I would go way beyond that. Don't users install additional applications?
I have more than 30GB of applications installed, though I will admit
that is probably far from typical. I think for under 80GB of space, it
should be a single partition. Over that, if you are going to go for this
crazy scheme ;), make / at least 20G.
I'd split at around 40G, with 20 for /.
However, as a user, I can say that I will always use a single
partition
(as I have been doing since my HPUX and Solaris days).
How do you preserve your /home files when you upgrade? If you have a
spare machine with lots of space to rsync back and forth or some other
quick backup mechanism it's not a big deal, but not everyone has that.
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