[Debian: Install] Harddisk partitioning

[Michelle Konzack]

Hi, 

and thanks for your help.
OK, I had this question for my Workstation.

I think, I will not change very much on my Base-Installation as described.

I will have many changes at the sorce codes 
and this partition will have many trouble (file copy/move/delete/rename/...)

The other thing is, how save it is, because I have many personal stuff 
and with Windows I have my problems with it and I have lost many of my
private files, mail-folders, ....

So I have splitted my /usr/ section in two partitions:  

        private files and development files (c-programming)

Under Windows is a second partition more save !!

And under Linux ???

Michelle


At 20:01 14.08.1999 GMT, you wrote
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MK>On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:23:27 +0100, Michelle Konzack
MK><starone at cybercable.fr> wrote:
MK>
MK>[...]
MK>>Now I like to install Debian 2.1 on it but I do not know, 
MK>>in which partitions.
MK>>
MK>>My problem is, that I do not know the size of the root and use prtition, 
MK>>because I need to install many source for compiling and Software
development.
MK>>
MK>>Where must I put all the source codes ???
MK>>In the root partition or usr partition ???
MK>[...]
MK>
MK>  This will probably attract a few flames, but if you are running
MK>anything but a heavy-load server, I'd suggest putting _everything_ on
MK>one partition.  This will solve all problems like this (on which
MK>partition should I put xxx), and has the added advantage that you have
MK>less "slack" (the extra space you allocate to each partition so it
MK>doesn't run out if you add an extra file to it).  (If resizing ext2
MK>partitions was easy and reliable this could be different, of course, but
MK>I don't know of any program that does this.)
MK>
MK>  Meanwhile, I think the most logical place to put your personal source
MK>code would be /usr/local/src/<your_project_name>.
MK>
MK>  Gertjan.
MK>
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