Partitioning Disk

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/30 Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com>:

> I agree with Ray.  Mine set up is
>
> /               = 20Gb
> /temp           = 10Gb
> /swap           = 8Gb (2x RAM)
> /Data           = remainder
>
> I then delete the user folder (Documents, Pictures, etc.) a sym link
> their equivalent from /Data.

No no no!

That's a Windows way of doing it. With Linux, you should make a
separate partition for /home and then *all* your data - not just a few
user folders - will be on a separate filesystem.

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