Adivce on Partitions

[Vram]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:11 -0400, Ylan Segal wrote:
> Andy Anderson wrote:
> > Ylan Segal wrote:
> > 
> >> My current thinking is that I want to create one partition for /home,
> >> one partition for my music files (/media ?), an appropriate swap
> >> partition and the rest of the drive as /.
> >>
> >> Questions:
> >> - Is my partitioning scheme rational? I just want to be able to
> >> reinstall the system in the future without that much hassle.
> > 
> > 
> > Other than that I *think* /media is a standard Ubuntu directory, your
> > scheme sounds rational to me.  However, since you mention that a low
> > hassle reinstall is one of your goals, I'll share my approach.
> 
> As someone else pointed out, it is a standard directory, so I won't use it.

I would put it as /media/music  or /media/mp3  or /media/songs/

or /media/stuff  or /media/listen  or /media/my_music


It is just a directory entry..

There is NOTHING HOLY about it..

HTH

Vram



> 
> > 
> > Given sufficient disk space, here is how I partition my systems (yes,
> > I keep WinXP around for when I want to use it):
> 
> Disk space I have, but that scheme is probably a little too much for me :)
> 
> > 
> > /dev/hda1    20 Gb    ntfs    /WinXP
> > /dev/hda2    30 Gb    fat32    /Common
> > /dev/hda3     2 Gb    ext3    /boot
> > /dev/hda4    rest of drive in extended partition
> > /dev/hda5     8 Gb    ext3    /
> > /dev/hda6     4 Gb    ext3    /var
> > /dev/hda7     8 Gb    ext3    alternate / for later
> > /dev/hda8     4 Gb    ext3    alternate /var for later
> > /dev/hda9     n Mb    swap    n=2*ram, but never more than 1536 Mb
> > /dev/hda10     m Gb    ext3    /home, where m=rest of the disk
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > I'd probably use /music.
> 
> That is a good possibility too.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> 
> It does, thank you.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ylan
> 
> "The universe is not required to be in
> perfect harmony with human ambition"
> ~ Carl Sagan
> 
>