<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Billie Walsh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bilwalsh@swbell.net">bilwalsh@swbell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm sure you will get replies to set up separate partitions for everything. Which is probably a pretty good idea actually. I usually just let the installer do whatever it does. Seems to work out just fine.<br>
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If I'm dual booting with Windows on a machine I use Windows to partition off however much of the hard drive I want to give Linux. My thinking is that Windows knows best how to deal with making sure it's files are safe afterwards. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Then when installing Linux I tell the installer to use whatever space I've set aside and let it run. As I said, it seems to work just fine for me. So far I've had very few issues.<font color="#888888"><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"></a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Ah that's nice, but I don't have windows, I have in fact replaced completely with Ubuntu LTS.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">There used to be a good argument for having a separate partition for<br>
/home so that you could re-install a later version of Ubuntu and keep<br>
the home data partition. This is no longer necessary as it is<br>
possible during installation to tell it not to overwrite /home by<br>
telling it not to format the partition. I just use a single partition<br>
(plus swap).<br>
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I have just seen Liam's point that if you want to try an alternative<br>
distribution then separate /home may be a good idea, which may well be<br>
valid if you were thinking of doing that.</blockquote><div><br>Nah, at the initial stage I cannot have more distros, I guess Ubuntu LTS would be more than sufficient. However, I just made /home a separate partition.<br><br>
===================================<br><br>linuxearth@linuxearth-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l<br>[sudo] password for linuxearth: <br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1 * 1 2445 19636224 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda2 2445 30402 224559105 5 Extended<br>/dev/sda5 2445 29794 219675648 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda6 29794 30402 4882432 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>
<br>===================================<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">*But* there are multiple drawbacks:<br>
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* You can't install a different, non-Ubuntu distro that way.<br>
* You can't share /home between different distros in a multiboot<br>
arrangement that way. (E.g. it's very nice to be able to install the<br>
*next* version of Ubuntu for a test-run before you commit to upgrading<br>
your main install.)<br>
* You can't put /home on a bigger drive that way.<br>
* You can't put *just* / on a fast SSD or something.<br>
* If a disaster corrupts your / partition, you lose all your data as<br>
well. (E.g. if you tried to resize it and it went wrong.)<br>
* It makes it more difficult to backup just your data.<br>
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And of course when reinstalling you have to trust that it will leave<br>
your data alone. I don't like taking chances like that if I have a<br>
ready alternative.<br>
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I thin k the arguments for splitting off /home are very strong, myself.<br>
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Then I am safe I guess.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Oliver Grawert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
that can get you into awkward situations where apps use different<br>
mechanisms for storing their settings, i really wouldnt count on<br>
userspace to work properly if you share home between distros (or even<br>
different releases of the same distro) once they excpect a certain<br>
setup in your home dir ...<br>
there are weeks of work of an ubuntu development cycle going into<br>
making sure that forward transitions of app settings work for users ...<br>
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i.e. if the evolution folder format changes and there is a conversion in<br>
the background going on on first startup of the newer evo you might not<br>
be able to reach your mail with the older one (you could replace<br>
evo with firefox, libreoffice etc above) ... so be careful with shared<br>
home...<br></blockquote><div><br>Saying very honestly, I really don't know (/understand) this... but well only one distro right now...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Pongo A. Pan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pongo_pan@fastmail.us">pongo_pan@fastmail.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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And of course, the really geeky way to have multiple distros installed<br>
at once on a suitably large hard drive (or bunch of them) is to have a<br>
small /home for each with symlinks to the common stuff<br>
like /home/Documents, /home/Music and /home/.local/share/ which are<br>
actually on a large common /data partition somewhere.<br>
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This is actually kind of fun to set up and makes it easy to evaluate/use<br>
several distros at once without worrying about coordinating data.<br></blockquote><div><br>This would be done after some experience, but I liked learning this way, ;)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Probably much more than the OP wants at this point though.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, :) <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Craig White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com">craigwhite@azapple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">separate /home is good in that you can erase everything else (like for<br>
an upgrade) and still keep the users documents/settings<br></blockquote><div><br>I set it up.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
separate /tmp is possibly useful for a public server but these days it<br>
isn't done much<br>
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separate /var is possibly a good idea on a public server to keep the<br>
main file system from filling up with runaway logging but that doesn't<br>
seem to happen much any more.<br>
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separate /usr is a bad idea<br>
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Previous justifications for partitioning were for security barriers that<br>
really don't exist any more so there's little reason to add the<br>
complexity that is potentially a problem.<br></blockquote><div><br>Right now, its like:<br><br><a href="http://postimage.org/image/vp9gi2nex/">http://postimage.org/image/vp9gi2nex/</a><br><br>Thanks a lot, Ubuntu really seems a good distro, I just try...THANKS.... <br>
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