Re: partitioning for dual-linux..

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:

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This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60GB drive on my
Debian laptop:
XP -10.00GB
boot - 0.10GB ??
sys 1
root - 0.15GB
usr - 2.00GB
var - 2.00GB
sys 2
root - 0.15GB
usr - 2.00GB
var - 2.00GB
shared
swap - 1.00GB
tmp - ramfs?
home -10.00GB
home2 -10.00GB
local -20.00GB

Three comments I can make so far:
1) Why the two home directories? If you keep your /etc/passwd and
/etc/groups in sync, you should not have issues between the two /home's.
(Then again, conflicts between multiple versions of gnome or kde, etc,
could be an issue - how about a "shared" space, and make /home just a
gig each)

Oh no - I wasn't intending separate home directories for the two
systems. Everything in the region labelled 'shared' is as the name
implies...

It is just a personal convention that I keep a separate encrypted
home2 partition for sensitive stuff, which I only mount when needed.

2) It is possible that each distro will trample over "its" /boot, so it
would probably be best to use separate /boot paritionsn, plus grub.

True, but if I am going to have a separate boot directory for each
system, why bother with a separate partition rather than just keeping
them as part of the root partition?

What difference does 50MB make, anyway?
3) Consider LVM.

I am, but am still unsure. I have heard of people having used it
and regretting it - but perhaps that was earlier in its development.

Is it generally considered to be robust now?

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com
http://www.digbyt.com


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