Best partition size for Ubuntu Root

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>
wrote:

> On Thursday 01 May 2008 06:47:09 pm Young wrote:
> > I'm preparing to do a complete re-install using 8.04. It's a dual boot
> > system with multiple drives, and I plan to re-partion the drives before
> > hand so I can improve my back-up scheme, and better share media files,
> > documents and email  between the two OSs.
> >
> > I'm trying to determine the largest expected size for Ubuntu plus an
> > average assortment of applications.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
>  it turns out Ubuntu doesn't partition like other
> distros.

I'm used to the way other distros partition which ususally
> means you can trash the "system" partition all you want but the user info
> is
> held safe in the /home partition.  Ubuntu seems to put it all in a single
> partition.


If you do a "typical" setup Ubuntu does take control and does a "dumb"
partition setup, which is usually the entire free-space or the entire disk.

But paritioning is a Distro-agnostic  concept, by which I mean, that you can
partition any Distro as you like.

Usually, it makes sense to have different partitions for the following
directories, for the following reasons :
/boot : This is done, so that in the event of a system crash, you can still
dual-boot into your other distros. Usually if you are playing around with a
few kernels, about 200-300MB space is enough.
/home : This is done in systems where there are more no. of users or if the
user prefers to put a lot of information in his home directory. If this is
the case, a good 10Gb+ would be a good estimate for this directory. Again,
this would increase propotionally as no. of users increase.
/usr : Again, this is done when the Distro is a server and a lot of stuff is
installed.
/root : I usually do not consider it a good idea to have a separate root
partition primarily because in Ubuntu , one always signs in as a normal user
and uses "sudo" to perform superuser tasks. So ideally, there is no data for
root.
/ : This is the base-root partition and I give it the maximum size of
atleast 10GB. Depending upon whether you have allocated the above paritions
or not, this size may increase.

Thanks,
Raseel
http://raseel.in



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