HD partitions?

[Paul Lussier]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at iname.com> writes:

> On Jun 15 at 6:25pm, Peter wrote:
>> I am new to Linux, and by new I mean that I have yet to install it,
>> but that will be happening shortly.  Anyway, I was hoping to get
>> suggestions on partition sizes.  I have a 200GB HD. This system will
>> be small, maybe three or four home users, and may or may not be used
>> as an web server (assume that it will be, I suppose).  Your
>> thoughts?
>
>    With a modern system, there are no technical requirements that
>    mandate multiple filesystem partitions.  You can have one giant
>    partition for all files.

You can, but I would recommend having at least a 2 partitions, / and
/var.  If something goes haywire with your system and starts logging
like crazy, you system won't crash if /var fills up, but weird things
might happen with a full /.

A separate swap is always good to.

Other than that, rather than typing a whole lot; what Ben said :)

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Seeya,
Paul