Partition Plan: 40 gig HDD?

Hi,

I was thinking of reloading ubuntu and with this reload changing my
partition plan. Any thoughts on this:

40gig HDD

/ = Everything else
home = 2 gig
swap = 1gig
/usr/local = 1 gig

My thoughts were: I compile a lot of stuff and would like to keep the
non-repository versions in /usr/local. I have 1 gig RAM and rarely
need a swap file but .... Home for me needs to be about 2 gig based on
current needs + some room for growth. Root gets the rest because I
could not be bothered to divide any further and this makes reloading a
little easier.

Any thoughts? I realise that partition schemes are a much discussed
area :-)

Andrew


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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:44:40 +0000 (UTC), andrew wrote:[color=blue]
>
> My thoughts were: I compile a lot of stuff and would like to keep the
> non-repository versions in /usr/local.[/color]

I play in different distribution and different releases of the same
distribution.

I had to make a /local/(bin,src,doc...) to hold common files to use
across different distributions/releases.

Example, you might have installed the newest release along side of your
current "Production" install.

You might not want the New /usr/local/RealPlayer to overwrite the
Production /usr/local/RealPlayer contents. :(

My solution is to install everything into /, share swap and keep
common things in other directories.

Some will insist on having /home separate. I have found different
releases of the desktop manager have caused problems with older
releases config files.

My solution there is to install /home under / and link common files
back into /accounts/$USER. Example:

[url]http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux/msg/d5a247e572f9de69[/url]

On 2007-09-13, andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I was thinking of reloading ubuntu and with this reload changing my
> partition plan. Any thoughts on this:
>
> 40gig HDD
>
> / = Everything else
> home = 2 gig
> swap = 1gig
> /usr/local = 1 gig
>
> My thoughts were: I compile a lot of stuff and would like to keep the
> non-repository versions in /usr/local. I have 1 gig RAM and rarely
> need a swap file but .... Home for me needs to be about 2 gig based on
> current needs + some room for growth. Root gets the rest because I
> could not be bothered to divide any further and this makes reloading a
> little easier.
>
> Any thoughts? I realise that partition schemes are a much discussed
> area :-)
>
> Andrew
>[/color]

in this way of working /home and /usr/local would be a bit small for my
work and data, and my system doesn't need 37gig just to run.
But perhaps you have installed lots of repo apps, so / needs 35G.
Maybe you could give /home and /usr/local a conservative 10G to share.

--
l'air du temps

andrew schreef:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I was thinking of reloading ubuntu and with this reload changing my
> partition plan. Any thoughts on this:
>
> 40gig HDD
>
> / = Everything else
> home = 2 gig
> swap = 1gig
> /usr/local = 1 gig
>
> My thoughts were: I compile a lot of stuff and would like to keep the
> non-repository versions in /usr/local. I have 1 gig RAM and rarely
> need a swap file but .... Home for me needs to be about 2 gig based on
> current needs + some room for growth. Root gets the rest because I
> could not be bothered to divide any further and this makes reloading a
> little easier.
>
> Any thoughts? I realise that partition schemes are a much discussed
> area :-)
>
> Andrew
>
>[/color]
I would put in a swap=RAM and a /boot of 100MB, the rest is /
The distribution will make a nice /home/yourname folder that just as all
other folders can grow without restriction till your disk's maximum.

Dirk T. Verbeek wrote:
[color=blue]
> I would put in a swap=RAM and a /boot of 100MB, the rest is /
> The distribution will make a nice /home/yourname folder that just as all
> other folders can grow without restriction till your disk's maximum.[/color]

I totally agree.

de Kameel

De Kameel wrote:[color=blue]
> Dirk T. Verbeek wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I would put in a swap=RAM and a /boot of 100MB, the rest is /
>> The distribution will make a nice /home/yourname folder that just as
>> all other folders can grow without restriction till your disk's maximum.[/color]
>
> I totally agree.
>
> de Kameel
>[/color]

And I would consider an additional "data" partition (ext or fat32,
(fat32=MS windows accessible)). So your data stays when reinstalling
(for whatever reason)

--

Xubunt6

"Xubuntu 6 just installed ..."

xubunt6 schreef:[color=blue]
> De Kameel wrote:[color=green]
>> Dirk T. Verbeek wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I would put in a swap=RAM and a /boot of 100MB, the rest is /
>>> The distribution will make a nice /home/yourname folder that just as
>>> all other folders can grow without restriction till your disk's maximum.[/color]
>>
>> I totally agree.
>>
>> de Kameel
>>[/color]
>
> And I would consider an additional "data" partition (ext or fat32,
> (fat32=MS windows accessible)). So your data stays when reinstalling
> (for whatever reason)
>[/color]
These days NTFS is read-write accessible from Linux as is ext2&3 from
Windows.
No reason to use a FAT partition, especially on the present large disks
and for example with the many smallish photo and mp3 files fat is quite
inefficient.
You can't even put a DVD on fat using a single (iso) file as fat only
handles up to 4GB per file.

I agree a separate data or home partition will not be destroyed during a
properly done re-install but in this day and age most of us will have an
external drive to (temporarily) back up during re-install.