On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend it > is part of my article, which you can read at > <http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc> These days, our default here at > work is: > /boot is 200M (we'll probably be moving that up to 300M or 500M, given the > preupgrade of fedora that will probably be coming down the pike). > 2GB is swap > and the rest of the drive is / (my manager doesn't like LVM, for some > reason). home directories are *always* NFS mounted here; at home, it's > *always* on a separate partition or drive, along with /opt, though I might > start putting /usr/local there as well, given that some things seem to be > moving back there from /opt. Agreed /boot needs less (currently on C 5) than 200 MB. Operating system in one partition on / User data on a different partition or partitions. > Sizing: remember, do NOT size for "typical", size for worst huge case, > esp. for a production or development system that others will be using. Agreed. Paul.