Advice on Partitioning ?

[Joe Burgess]

Also if you are wondering about partitioning after the fact, there is a 
great file partitioner called GParted it is pretty easy to use and you 
can install it with apt-get install gparted.

-Joe

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> 
>> My recommendation for starter desktops is that you at least create 4
>> partitions for Linux:
>> 1.  " / " called "root" Give this at least 15 - 20 GB (if your hard drive
>> is large enough)
>> 2. "/boot" Give this no more than 100 MB as it will never need all of
>> that. This is just for the Kernel and its needed files.
>> 3. "/home"  Give this the lion Share of the drive because this is where
>> you are going to put just about everything.
>> 4.  "swap"  Probably wont need more than 2 GB (I know I've never needed
>> it, for desktop setups anyway).
> 
> This isn't a bad method, but I disagree with bothering with a partition
> for /boot.  It complicates grub configuration (because relative paths to
> the boot partition become /grub..., rather than /boot/grub...) and 100MB
> will no doubt not always be enough.  When I used to keep a /boot partition,
> I think I made the partition 30MB - which was more than enough.  Then
> kernels got too big for me to be able to have a "current" and "new" kernel
> at the same time...
>  
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