Partitions for Kubuntu

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, Rhune Lord wrote:
> Ok I have a 320GB HDD in the notebook. I have [a] 100G partition mounted 
> [as] /. Do I set the rest to " /home " (I have 1028MB partition for SWAP) or
> [are] there any other partitions I should make to help [recover from] a 
> crash?

1G is probably more swap than you need.  You generally want at least / 
and /home, so that your data is separate from the OS in case you decide to 
install a different distro.  Most of the time, you want /usr and /var on 
separate partitions; this allows you to mount /usr read-only most of the 
time.  Some people put /tmp , /opt, and /usr/local on separate partitions, 
but this is probably overkill for a single-user system.

If the machine isn't a dual-boot machine, the most flexible thing to do is to 
make one large LVM partition and keep all the filesystems in LVs.  It's a 
whole lot easier to resize an LV than it is to resize a partition, and the 
15-partition limit doesn't exist with LVs.  The main problems with LVs are 
that it's impossible to read them with any non-Linux OS right now, and they 
may not be n00b-friendly.  HTH,

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