disk partitioning for Ubuntu 8.1

[Chris G]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:24:13AM -0500, Wendy Galovich wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2009 12:03:44 Ray Leventhal wrote:
> > NoOp wrote:
> > > On 01/21/2009 05:21 AM, Ray Leventhal wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >> I've an unallocated 80GB segment on which I'd like to install Ubuntu.
> > >>  From what I can see, I need to manually create the partitions using
> > >> gparted from the LiveCD portion of the 8.1 distribution media.  If I can
> > >> do this in an automated fashion, I'd love a pointer in the right
> > >> direction.
> > >>
> > >> If it does need to be done manually, given a 2GB memory system, I'd be
> > >> inclined to create a 4GB linux-swap partition, but am not sure (as I've
> > >> come from the RH camp) if there's a preferred / and /boot paradigm.
> > >
> > > That's pretty much the safe formula.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. I'd already pretty much decided that / and /boot
> > partitions weren't a necessity, but I do appreciate the pointers.
> >
> > So, I'm going with a 4GB linux-swap partition with / set to the balance
> > of the disk.
> >
> > -Yet another Ubuntu (desktop) convert :)
> > Ray
> 
> One additional suggestion - you might want to consider setting up /home as a 
> dedicated partition.  That way if you ever need to reinstall from scratch, you 
> can select manual partitioning and preserve /home by choosing not to reformat 
> it.  Of course you'd do a backup first anyway, but assuming a reinstall was 
> uneventful you wouldn't have to restore the directory afterward.
> 
I always have /home separate, on a separate drive if possible, it
makes trying different distributions so much easier and also makes it
very easy to move to new hardware.

> I adopted the above during the years that I used Red Hat and subsequently 
> Fedora as my primary desktop / laptop install, because during that time the 
> consensus seemed to be that the safest way to upgrade those distributions was 
> to do a fresh install of the upgraded version.  I've been using Ubuntu since 
> trying 7.04 and never looked back, but have found this configuration handy 
> enough to continue doing it.
> 
> Wendy
> 
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Chris Green