[Sheflug] Partitioning

[Keith Powell <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all

I am thinking of buying a larger hard drive to replace the one I am using at 
the present for Linux. It will be either a 20GB or a 30GB one, and will only 
contain Linux.

Please can I have some guidance on the size and number of partions I should 
create? The SuSE manual doesn't cover partitioning such large hard drives.

I have 256MB of memory and I understand that I should have a swap partion 
twice this size. At the moment I have /boot, swap, / and /home partitions. 
Should I also have /user or other partitions? 

There is only me who uses the computer, so there will only be one user. I 
can't install this present old drive in the computer as part of the 
partitioning, as I have two drives on caddies. One is for Linux, and the 
other is for "another OS" which I still have to use very occasionally.

Many thanks for any advice.

Best wishes

Keith
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