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A Quick Guide to Linux Partition Schemes

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What partition setup should you use when dual-booting Windows and Linux? Should you have a separate partition for /home? Why do some people put /boot into its own partition? These are the questions that have plagued mankind since the dawn of time (or thereabouts). This guide aims to answer some of those questions and demonstrate some partition schemes that may save you some space, hassle, or data loss down the line.

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Comments (4)

tracyanne ·
Quoting:You can, of course, adjust the sizes of the partitions to meet your needs. If you don’t plan to install many programs in the root partition, you can drop that down to 10 or 20 GB and leave the rest for user files, or vice versa.


But even building a Games machine with all the Games in the Mandriva or Ubuntu repos I've never needed more than 20 Gig, and I've not ever managed to fill 10 Gig
azerthoth ·
Depends on Distro, however I didnt notice anything in this guide that was anything more than opinion.
ComputerBob ·
I've never followed anyone else's suggestions for partition sizes, and even 10 GB sounds like an incredibly big root partition to me.

With 2 installed linux-images, here are my Debian (KDE 3.5.10) desktop PC's partition stats:

root partition size: 5.20 GB root partition used: 2.43 GB

/home partition size: 3 GB /home partition used: 339 MB

/mydata partition size: 18 GB /mydata partition used: 9.2 GB
gus3 ·
For Slackware with Gnome SlackBuild, 15G is just about right. I have 12881M (~12.5G) used in my root, which includes stock Slackware-current, GSB, and a few extra packages from SlackBuilds.org.

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