installation doubt

[Liam Proven]

On 16 November 2011 13:53, Buggs Bunny <valambanam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am coming directly from Windows XP, though I was not a windows admin but I
> have with my Ubuntu LTS 10.04 CD. Planing to install this in the hope that
> it is becoming the most popular distro. Said that, please let me know if
> during installation, what should I do:
>
> Create the separate partitions for each /, /home, /tmp, /usr etc....or not?
> Though its just a newbie talk, but at least I know the installation but
> don't know if should install separate each identities or not....?

All you need is:

/
/home
swap

Leave all the rest in `/`. Decades ago on big Unix servers they were
helpful, but not any more, not when you can just boot a computer off a
CD into a full graphical Linux desktop and fix things that way.

Having /home separate means that you can share it between multiple
distros, or wipe & reload one distro without fear that you will lose
your data. That's why I recommend keeping it separate.

You don't need much space for the / filesystem. 8GB is enough for most
people, 16GB is generous and 32GB is profligate.


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