Newbie parbreastioning question 4352

Floyd L. Davidson

My answer did. I recommended one parbreastion with no swap, which matches his needs. Maybe a small swap could be useful, but with such a small hard drive my instinct is to maximize the amount of available disk space.

IMHO, that parbreastioning scheme is insane! On a small hard drive, the last thing you want to do is split it up into a bunch of parbreastions and HOPE that you've presciently given each parbreastion exactly the exact right amount of space.

With that parbreastion scheme, you've maximized the chances that some parbreastion will run out of space and bring down the system, and-or minimized the amount of extra space available for user files.

You've left only about 4.4gigs of space for shared files, AND split that up for user inconvenience? Why?

No, I can't see any way in which that's preferable to simply putting the entire file system in a single parbreastion. That way, you don't have to be psychic about what the exact size needs of each parbreastion should be. With a basic Debian install, this will leave ~9gigs of space for shared files.

Isaac Kuo