Partitioning Disk

[Fred Roller]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:44 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Partitioning schemes, including the need for a swap partition, vary
> from 
> user to user - we all have opinions and most are right for our 
> particular use needs.
> 
> Personally, with an 80GB drive, I'd make a swap following the old 
> formula where your swap partition is equal to twice the RAM on the 
> system.  Other than that, I'd make a / partition of about 20 GB, then 
> the rest in /home.

I agree with Ray.  Mine set up is

/ 		= 20Gb
/temp		= 10Gb
/swap		= 8Gb (2x RAM)
/Data		= remainder

I then delete the user folder (Documents, Pictures, etc.) a sym link
their equivalent from /Data.   
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Fred R.
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