installation opinions

[Alexander Skwar]

Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net>:

> I'm installing kubuntu onto a new system dual booting with win2k.  I'm going 
> to planning to have / and /home on separate partitions, but I want to 
> maximize the size of /home and still allow for future growth under / as I 
> install new software or upgrade the distro over the next 3 years.  I'm 
> looking for opinions on the minimum / partition size for a kubuntu install 
> that would still allow for future growth.

Use LVM. It allows to easily expand (and in theory shrink) the
"partitions" and the filesystem to meet chaning needs. With LVM,
you should make the filesystems as small as possible, so that
you'll later on make the filesystems larger, when the need
arises. Also, you should put the "main directories" in / on
seperate filesystems.

I'd suggest the following sizes:

/boot   30m     ext2
/       500m    reiserfs
/var    500m    reiserfs
/usr    2g      reiserfs
/tmp    1g      reiserfs
/opt    100m    reiserfs
/home   2g      reiserfs

> Is 6Gb to small?  8? 

*WAY* to large. 

Alexander Skwar
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