Partition Question

[Stephen Partington]

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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