[TriLUG] partitioning advice

[Mike McLean]

Peter Long wrote:
> 
> To all linux gurus:
> 
> What is the best way to partition your harddrive space so that it is
> easier to manage upgrades?

My current scheme is:
/boot	100M  
swap
/	5G
/home	the rest

from there, I symlink /usr/local to /home/usr-local
and I really ought to set up a cronjob to sync /etc to somewhere on the
home partition too.

Not sure if this is optimal, but my "upgrade" from 7.1 to 7.2 by
installing over the old root was fairly painless.  I ended up having to
re-add all the users and chown their home directories though.