Wise disk parting.

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Wed Nov 7 22:41:58 UTC 2007


On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:16:51AM +0700, Strong wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:00:59 -0500 "Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> > I have typically partitioned with four partitions:
> > 200MB or so /boot
> > swap equal to RAM size on late 2.6 kernels
> > 8-10GB /
> > remainder /home
> 
> Could You explain/argument the partitioning, please?
> 1. Why separate /boot?

Fedora install does that all by itself given a blank unpartitioned
disk.  I think it's because it's easier for grub to have its own
partition that's not an LVM partition.

-- 
Chris Green




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