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Re: [Sheflug] Partitioning.
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J/#6 <sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk> writes:
Chris> One idea - I don't have my mp3's in a single partition -
Chris> currently I've got about 6 or 7 partitions dedicated to
Chris> mp3's...why so many? Each partition is 650MB in size...ie,
Chris> 1 CD's worth. It makes it very swish and easy to write
Chris> things out to CD when you know everything is under a single
Chris> partition. :)
Me too. But aren't quotas working yet?
Chris> Up to you :) I can never get it right...I've a 2GB root,
Chris> 630MB /home, and a 2GB /usr/local. At the time I threw /usr
Chris> on the root partition, and I'm wondering if that really was
Chris> a good idea. :)
I would put /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp off the root. /home and /var
contain _your_ data and any FHS-compliant distro will not overwrite
_anything_ on them. You hope. So put them on separate partitions,
and don't tell the upgrade about them until after you're done. ;-)
The same logic probably applies to /usr/local. But it's usually not
so critical, as long as you have a list of what's there.
/var and /tmp are not under your sole control if your machine is on
the internet. If they fill up, you will likely get a crash, but at
least you probably won't lose stuff on other file systems.
Make two /-sized partitions. Then every once in a while do dd
if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda2. Especially right before a big upgrade.
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