[ale] Partitions

[hbbs at mediaone.net (jeff hubbs)]

Leonard Thornton wrote:

> OK, I admit it.....I'm lazy.  I also like to keep things very simple. 
> On a personal machine (home variety), I have 3 Linux partitions:  
> 
> /boot 20Mb
> <swap> 256Mb (256Mb memory in machine)
> / (remainder of 8Gb drive).  
> 
> That's all....I have not found a good reason on a home machine to futher
> partition the drive for /usr, /home, /var, etc....

This is a perfectly fine way to operate, albeit suboptimal (but by so 
little that it's just not going to matter).  When setting up a machine 
for home use, that's about all I do unless I'm dealing with multiple 
drives and I'm dealing with either a space-limitation or 
performance-improvement issue.

- Jeff


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