[QCLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Leif Theden]

yeah, for sure.  ive gotten to trouble with a root to small before
too.  :)

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 11:28 -0600, Jim Hall wrote:
> Leif Theden wrote:
> > Just my 2 cents, but i have found it to be EXTREMELY (note the
> > emphasis) helpful to make a seperate / and /home partition.  If you
> > are like me, i switch distros once in a while, having your /home in a
> > seperate mount will make distro switches infinately easier, because
> > you dont have to worry about wiping your personal files.  For example,
> > I just changed from Arch Linux to Ubuntu, and I was able to keep my
> > home directory intact, even though my root ( / ) was completely
> > formatted.  Good luck!
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>I've been playing with Kubuntu 8.04 Beta on my laptop and tried
> >>VirtualBox and some other stuff hoping I could get rid of Vista. I don't
> >>like VirtualBox so will just have to do a dual boot after all. Oh, Well.
> >>Maybe later.  I still have a couple of things to look at to see if they
> >>work with my GPS or not but my hopes aren't high. Anyway, I will be
> >>setting the laptop back up with 7.10 (or waiting for 8.04 in about a
> >>month) and need some advice. After my Window Vista is shrunk as far as I
> >>can take it I have 65 GB to put Kubuntu in. When I set it up I want to
> >>have the "/", "/home" and or course the "swap" on separate "drives".
> >>How much of the 65 GB should I assign to the "swap" and "/"?  I don't
> >>want to crowd them but I don't want to wast space either. Any
> >>suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >>Have A Great Day
> >>Bob Jones
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>
> > 
> 
> 
> Don't forget that programs are installed in / . If you plan to install a 
> lot of them you'll need a larger that normal size. Found that out the 
> hard way.
> 
> Jim
> 
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