Linux partitions are basically of three types: swap, root, and home. The swap partition is used for Linux swap space, root partition for Linux and the installed applications, and home partitions for holding /home directory i.e. data. When it comes to data accessibility, the latter two partitions are comparatively more vital for uninterrupted data access.
Hello,
Moving from FC17 to FC18 I decided to free some space (taken from swap and the root partition).
Both partitions were created in an extended partition, ending up with 2GB of free space in the begining of the Extd. partition and additional 1.6GB in the end.
There are other partitions (active and used by linux) in between, home, root, etc.
The question(s) is:
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I have Fedora 12 installed on my laptop with Vista as alternate boot.
While installing F12, I chose to have my root partition with 4GB. Now I find that almost 99% of this space is used and only about 50 MiB remains free. So whenever I try to update F12 by issuing 'yum update' command it halts citing the error : Insufficient disk space in /.
I thought a basic layout would call for 3 partitions on the 160 GB hdd of my EEE netbook. It's got 1 GB RAM so I'll go with a swap partition the same size. The question is what size my / partition should be. I'd like to allocate the rest to the /home partition.
I was told it neither matters if those are primary or logical nor if they're at the beginning or end of the disk. Can you second that?
I use Ubuntu 11.10 and have three partitions, one ext4 for the root directory, one ext4 for the /home and one for swap.
My computer is dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu (12.04). My ubuntu partition has an encrypted root and home. The trouble is that for a while the /root partition has been almost full (94% to 98%. I haven't been able to run updates without being very selective because of the lack of space.I try to clean up the root directory, but it never clears up more than 100 or so mb of memory.
I'm about to re-install my system. I like to keep a separate /home and / root partitions. I've been using (K)Ubuntu for around a year now and my / partition (almost 36Gb) never climbed over ~13Gb of used space.
What would you say is the appropriate maximum size one should set a / partition to?
I am working with a server running that has a 15GB root partition, a 1GB swap partition, and a 216.9GB home partition.
It's the first time I install Ubuntu. I need some advise to plan a good partition strategy for a Ubuntu (12.04) + Windows7 (64bit) system.
I have 1TB Hard disk, 8GB RAM.
I'd like to have a big partition NTFS to share data between the two OS
I often use a lot of (big) apps. (So my partition Widows C: must takes about 150GB)
What is the partition size should I put for root and home?
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