Partition Question

[Michael Havens]

no swap? Come on..... you ONLY have 16 GB of RAM.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My normal partition setup is usually /boot of about 1-2GB (excessive but i
> have run out of boot space before and it was ugly) and / and for mechanical
> HDD's 2-6gb swap depending on use/ram availability, for my recent install i
> have no swap and 16gb ram and running linux on an ssd.
>
> space used in home i would take a peek at how much "stuf" you have stashed
> there. and plan accordingly, but 20GB overall is usually enough for Linux
> depending on where you install/put things.
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I need to reinstall a new OS on my laptop because Mint 17.1 keeps having
>> trouble downloading packages sometimes.  Mostly it says that 'a template
>> for "rebecca" could not be found.'  So the release is just having growing
>> pains.
>>
>> Onto my question though, I want to install something else but want to
>> know about partitioning my drive.  I have not gotten into LVMs so I need to
>> read up on those before trying.  I know that it depends but I would like
>> some options.  I have a 250 GB drive, I am wanting to make a separate /,
>> home, var, tmp, and usr directories. I am looking for a possible percentage
>> of whats best works for a home computer more or less.
>>
>> If someone doesn't mind giving me an insight that would be helpful.
>> Usually I have done 5-10GB for / and 2GB for swap and the rest for home.  I
>> want to see what others have tried in the past that has worked for them.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Melheim
>> 602-400-7707
>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>
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