[vox-tech] Need Partitioning Advice

[Rod Roark]

What I generally do is make 2 or 3 12-20 GB partitions for root
filesystems and allocate the rest as a /work partition. Multiple root
partitions give you an easy way to try other distributions or upgrade to
new releases without disrupting what you already have.

/work is where my personal stuff goes and I'll have various symlinks
(mostly from my home directory) to places in there.

I don't bother with a separate /tmp. If something uses a lot of space in
there I could redirect that to /work as well, but it hasn't come up.

Have fun!

Rod

On 10/05/2017 09:09 PM, Bob Scofield wrote:
> I'm thinking about getting a new laptop for myself and a new desktop
> for my wife.  I know that for these computers I definitely want a
> separate partition for /home.
>
> I notice that on my present Linux machines that I have a separate
> partition for /tmp.  And of course there are separate partitions for /
> and swap.  That's all the separate partitions I have.
>
> How important is it to have a separate partition for /tmp?  I've got
> 2G on the desktop I'm using right now.  The partition for / is 15G.  I
> vaguely recall a discussion here years ago and people saying that /tmp
> is on a separate partition to prevent / from being crowded.  Does it
> make sense to have a 2G /tmp?  Does it make any difference if one does
> not have a separate partition for /tmp but instead adds 2G to /?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Bob
>
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