Partition Question

[Stephen Partington]

Lol,

With a mechanical drive i would give it a token bit of swap, but with an
SSD i am more interested in reducing write cycles.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
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>>
>> Stephen
>>
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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