no swap? Come on..... you ONLY have 16 GB of RAM. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Stephen Partington 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 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@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >