Advice on Partitioning ?

[Derek Broughton]

Bill Vance wrote:

> On Sun Jan 13 20:12:54 2008 Clark wrote:
> 
>>Can someone suggest a good place to start reading up on the subject of
>>Partitioning and if possible the software used and where to get it.
>>Wine is way too exotic for me at this stage.
>>
> If you're dealling with kubuntu 7.04, hang it up;  It's completely
> incapable of dealling with anything more complicated than a, "swap",
> partition, and a
> single, "/", partition, which contains everything.  _ANY_ attempt to
> create more partitions, using any of the available file systems, simply
> generates

What utter crap.  What have you been smoking?  I've been using
separate /, /home, /var, /usr and swap partitions since Warty.  Since
that's too many for primary partitions, I've been using a mix of Primary
and Logical partitions.  Since Dapper, /home, /var and /usr have even been
on an LVM.  I'll admit that the LVM initially caused me a few headaches,
and I'm still not convinced it was necessary or even wise, but separating
(at least) /var and /home from the more static partitions is always a good
idea.

> a bazillion arcane mounting errors on bootup.  Sometimes you can get past
> these, but they'll still bite you in the butt when you try to install
> software, or do anything else complex.

No they won't.  I've _never_ had an arcane mounting error, except when
trying to mount unchecked fs'es which routinely tells you they have bad
superblocks (which is arcane, but easily fixed).
-- 
derek