[NTLUG:Discuss] Installation learning curve

[Richard Geoffrion]

david wrote:
> <snipping a part to which I am not responding (trimming the post)>
> As for partitioning I go with: 5-10G /, 
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Hm..  Giving reasons why you are only assigning 5/10 gig for a root 
partition...and keeping everything on that one partition might be in 
order.  I have heard that there are many issues that can be mitigated by 
separating out /tmp, /usr/local, /var into their own partitions.  For 
instance, one could mount /tmp with the noexec option for extra security.

Oh, and I would be left with a full root partition if I kept all but 
/home on it.

Good reading on partitioning for linux....with explanations about what 
goes where and why.

> 2G swap (drive space is cheap 
> why not use it)
>   
Waste not, want not.   Some argue that providing unnecessary swap space 
causing more paging to disk and degrades system performance.  I remember 
reading an article somewhere that discussed the issue of swap partitions 
in today's multi-gigabyte or RAM systems.    I'll try to find it.  

OR MAYBE SOMEONE HERE KNOWS OF THE SWAP SPACE ARTICLE???

> and the remaining free space can be allotted to /home. I prefer to 
> divide the remaider like this:
> 2/3 goes to /home and the final 1/3 to /tars. 
1/3 can't go to /tars cuz you already  allotted the remainder to /home   
(now I'm just nitpicking!!!) :)
> <snipping / trimming the rest of the post to save EVERYONE from wasting all that disk space!>
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Richard