Fresh install Kubuntu 13.10: how best to partition the HD for optimal, smooth Kontakt & Akonadi

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Everybody,

today, I am going to carry out a fresh, manual install of Kubuntu 13.10 at
both of my laptops. I want to partition the HD in such a way that I can
ensure Kontact and Akonadi working smoothly.

One laptop has a HD of 250 GB, another one contains 500 GB HD. I am
considering to partition the discs manually, as follows:

   - Root  60.000 MB, ext4, mount point /;
   - Swap 2000 MB, logical, location: 'beginning';
   - Home the rest of the disc, logical.

>From various contributions in the thread '100% CPU.....', I get the
impression that it seems to be better to create a 4th partition: for the
DATA of HOME, with 'symlinks' to the normal, 'original' HOME'. By doing so,
Akonadi seems to work quite well, with less CPU consumption.

Do I correctly summarise here the recent advises at this forum? If so, do I
need to create a 4th partition when manually installing Kubuntu? Or is it
better to split the HOME partition after installing the system?

 Another question puzzling me: how to create those so-called 'symlinks'?

Thanks for replying. Have a good weekend.


Bas G. Roufs.
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