Recommended partitioning scheme

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Aug 1 22:25:06 UTC 2004


On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:12:06AM -0500, David L Norris wrote:
> > > articles saying that /home and /usr should also be mounted on seperate 
> > > partitions so that user data and installed programs can be saved in the 
> > > event a reinstall is necessary.
> Definitely /home and maybe /usr/local.  You may want to keep a periodic

On most systems, I solve this by moving /usr/local to /home/usrlocal, and
making /usr/local be a symlink.

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