On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 05:04:33PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > I have a quick question: When the installer prompts for a mount point (/ > or /root or /boot or /home etc), is there any particular reason to > choose one over another ? Or does it not matter during a simple > installation ? (hoping Andreas will say more or less the same :-) That's a strange question - if you create multiple partitions that is usually because you have a particular use (and hence mount point) in mind for each of them. You need at least /boot (100M, I always use a conservative ext2 for that), and /. A separate /home partition allows you to install a completely new system later without touching any home dirs - rather essential on a multi-user system but quite practical on a personal one as well. I always create a separate /audio partitions as well (for audio files and ardour sessions). If you have a second disk that's where that one should go of course. You mentioned Arch. I switched to Arch two years ago, coming from first Suse and then Fedora. The first time can be intimidating, but there's a lot of good docs, you will learn at lot, and end up feeling back in control of your system. I'm admin for 12 Arch systems now, and I never looked back. -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
