Re: [Sheflug] Partitioning

[Richard Fletcher <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 2:41 pm, Keith wrote:
> Greetings all
> 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 suppose that it would be a good time to use the cliche, "It depends what 
you want to use your computer for."

Say you want many mp3's, then it would be a good idea to have a partition for 
just mp3s, allowing you to upgrade the system without overwriting your data 
files, in any case its worth having a seperate storage partition for these 
kinds of eventualities.

Perhaps you might like a seperate partition for games, you would have to 
reinstall after an upgrade probably, but you would be sure that you wouldn't 
overburden your hard-drive, although I somehow cant see that being a problem.

You might want to run wwwoffle which is a web-proxy cache type thing and 
benfits from a certain type of file system which I cant recall right now. 
That may well suit a partition, depending on what your usage is going to be.

All I'll say more is that if your as lucky as me you will always have made 
the wrong choice.


(Hello to everyone on the list since I've not made myself heard for a while!)

-- 
Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.
"Those who shun unix are forced to reinvent it."
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