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Re: [LUG] Time to upgrade

 

Yes, assuming he does (have a separate home parrtition). And if not: next time. Just my 2 pence, but would recommend at least 15gb for root. If I could go back and make mine even bigger than 15 I would (can't be fracked to resize it now). It grows!

Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25/10/12 18:20, Migel Wimtore wrote:
Hi. If you DON'T format the home partition during install you won't lose
anything. Might be worth renaming .config and some other folders
(.KDE/.KDE4), to avoid any application configuration confusion. If you
are super paranoid back it up though. What about buying a caddy for a
couple of quid on eBay and sticking an old desktop or laptop drive in
that, for external use?


That's assuming Neil has a separate home partition :-)

If not, Neil when you next install Linux it could be worth going for the
manual partitioning option in the installer and creating a separate
partition for '/' and one for '/home'.

Personally I tend to make my '/' partition around 10GB which seems to
leave about 4GB or so free and then allocate the rest of the drive
between '/home' and swap.

At the moment I have a small swap partition (about 384MB) which I'm
starting to think might be a little small, but that could be due to
having so many tabs open in Firefox (the Flash plugin is taking a good
50% of the memory!). I'm even mulling over increasing the size of the
swap partition to the size of the memory I have in the system (4GB) or
at least half of it.

As for external hard drives, they're all pretty much the same these
days. I'd suggest maybe going for a USB 3 drive as it should be
backwards compatible and if you upgrade your machine (or if it's a
desktop, fit a USB 3 card) then you can benefit from the faster transfer
speeds. Maybe even consider having two drives and doing alternate daily
or weekly backups and keeping one drive off site.

Rob

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