Hello, world! Partitioning again

[smsmith]

I use the following:

/swap - same as my RAM, which I believe is the recommended amount
/root - 10 GB
/home - whatever was left on the drive (I believe it was 18 GB)

With 10 GB for root, I haven't run into any disk space issues yet, but I don't plan on using more than one desktop environment. I've added the KDE game pack and some other assorted programs and added one of the newer kernels and believe I have near 5 GB left. I'll check when I get home.

I only used the smallish 18 GB for /home, because the system is single user and I didn't want to give up my Vista partition quite yet. I haven't moved my music collection over yet, but it's only 3 GB any way. I have a Blu-Ray player hooked to my pretty sweet TV, so I don't plan on ripping movies to this computer, so I doubt I'll need much more space that that. But probably at Christmas time I will get a new laptop with Win7 on it and dedicate this laptop to Mint fully and start to explore the multimedia capabilities.

I don't see many recommendations for more partitions than that anymore. Used to be you would see guides insisting you have a /var, /usr, /bin, etc partition. Somebody will correct me if I am wrong, I'm sure.

[RedWagon]

smsmiths' post is pretty good, though if you play games you might want a slightly larger root partition.

[Acid_1]

10 gigs is a lot if you don't have much hard drive space. I have mine set to 6.5GB and it still has 2 gigs free. I recommend you run this when you have Mint installed. You can get ~500MB freed up of space.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 42#p147342

On my Ubuntu partition after 3 months it cleared 700MB for me

[Fred]

Eocyte,

If you are doing a lot of computationally intensive things, compiling, converting formats, etc., use the 64 bit version. For things memory intensive and normal desktop use stay with the 32 bit version.

Fred