On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 16:47 +0100, Tom Charles-Edwards wrote: > Greetings. > > I have just set up my first partition table. > > When you specify the mount point for each partition you can use your own title or > one of those in the menu. I can't remember all of them, but they had names like / > var, /tmp etc etc. > > Where can I find information about which of these I need to create partitions for and > what they're supposed to be used for. > > Currently I have (ext3): > > / > swap > /home > /audio > You don't need to create partitions for them. With the above config they will live on the root partition. This is probably what you want. > I guess when I'm installing software an arbitrarily structured partition table is likely to > result in chaos ? something I'm naturally quite keen to avoid. Not nearly as bad as a "clever" sysadmin overdoing it. I have seen high end SCSI disks die in a week because some wisenheimer decided to put "/home" at the very beginning of the disk and "/var" at the very end, then configured some daemon to log to its home directory. Or made / just big enough to hold the files from a BSD/OS 3.0 install, only to find it's not quite big enough for the 4.2 files and, oh, say, the password file at the same time. Short answer: go with the defaults the installer chooses for you. It's almost definitely smarter than you are in this area. Lee
