[arch] The ever lasting story: hard disk partitioning

[Aaron Griffin]

On 11/1/06, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:23 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 11/1/06, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> wrote:
> > > /boot        <- 25 mb
> > > swap        <- 1 GB (server has 1 gb ram)
> > > /        <- 2 GB
> > > /usr/local    <- 500 MB
> > > /home        <- The rest
> >
> > I know it's typical for people to separate / and /home, but the advice
> > I always give is this: are you going to be installing another distro
> > on here?  If not, then there is no real reason to separate the two.
>
> Well what if you'd like to re-install your distro, but keep your
> settings in /home?  This is the main reason I keep them separate (not to
> mention /home is in a raid for data integrity that I don't need on /).

Configuration I keep off-site in an svn repo.  That's easy, it's all
text.  As for data (movies, mp3s, things like that) I typically back
those up _anyway_ when doing a re-format or re-install in the
offchance that it all goes poof.  Anymore, my ~ is just a whole mess
of cvs/svn checkouts and some media I haven't yet watched-and-deleted.