On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:04, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
It may be time to rethink multiple partitions. For legacy reasons,
I build my systems with multiple partitions, but if I had it to do
over again I would probably do it with 3 partitions:
/boot (because it has to be small)
swap (about 2 GB)
/ (everything else, including multiple drives if LVM)
You will definitely want to have /home as a separate partition.
It is very good for when you want to install a fresh version (ie, not
upgrade) since you can format it safely.
Rui
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