Wise disk parting.

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Strong wrote:
> I want to get the list's advice on disk partitioning.
> I have a laptop with 74Gb hdd. At the first I thought to partition it
> having single partition on it - it is very useful - no need to look for
> the free space of a partition - if whole disk is full then it is full -
> unlike with  several partitions on it - when it is necessary to move
> data from one to another just to have the necessary sum of free space.
> 
> What is the list opinions and arguments on this matter regarding what
> have been said? Big thanks.

My laptop has a 60GB HDD. It has seen FCs 5, 6 & 7. A small boot 
parition, 15GB for root and the rest is a partition mounted on /data. 
Across versions, I do a full install where I leave the data partition 
intact. This has made upgrading almost painless and without any major 
backups.

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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