GackY2K
April 28th, 2009, 03:31 PM
This is a call out to all you Ubuntu pro's. I've been playing with Ubuntu for a bit, off and on dual booting and am just about comfortable enough to make the complete break from MS and go only Ubuntu. I am preparing a new disk for just that purpose and want some expert/experienced suggestions on how to best partition/format and mount these partitions for optimal security, ease in restoration...etc.
HD: 250 gig SATA
I have been reading and getting a widely varied opinion on various partition sizes and mounting points to use. I was only using 10Gigs for "/" and setting the rest to "/home" and using ext3 format, and a 5 Gig Swap partition. Should I continue with this or try something like:
5G- /var
5G- /usr
8G- /tmp
5G- Swap
1G- /
Remainging Gigs- /home
Keeping in mind, that I want to also develop an easy BACKUP routine to restore my OS in the event of some corruption. That is my sole beef with Ubuntu so far...it gets corrupted easily and wont boot...at least not for a relative amateur such as myself and looking to move away from MS, does not make the process "comfortable" to explore. For example...a few months ago I had a Power supply go bad and shut down mid boot. Replaced it and all sorts of errors on next Ubuntu boot and could never get it to boot w/o hanging indefinately on a black screen, but my Windows (dual booting) worked fine when it would shut down during boot on it. Things like that make me nervous when making this migration.
I need to be able to restore from this sort of thing w/o having to reinstall the whole damn OS...hence why I am writing for suggestions on installing with possibly more partitions with the hopes that I can simply backup one or more of these partitions and restore easily with a LIVE CD or something like that.
So...with all that in mind...lend me your suggestions oh great Ubuntu gods! :-)
OH...by the way...please also recommend any format suggestions ie: ext3 vs ext4...etc. I would think ext4 would be better than ext3 as logic to me would dictate that it is the next revision and newer/improved version...but...what do I know...I am a n00b.
After I have this information...I just need to find a fix to slow my dang mouse down...I have the WoW mouse and its a very high DPI mouse and even set to its lowest setting is too dang fast to comfortably use...
TIA for your help!
HD: 250 gig SATA
I have been reading and getting a widely varied opinion on various partition sizes and mounting points to use. I was only using 10Gigs for "/" and setting the rest to "/home" and using ext3 format, and a 5 Gig Swap partition. Should I continue with this or try something like:
5G- /var
5G- /usr
8G- /tmp
5G- Swap
1G- /
Remainging Gigs- /home
Keeping in mind, that I want to also develop an easy BACKUP routine to restore my OS in the event of some corruption. That is my sole beef with Ubuntu so far...it gets corrupted easily and wont boot...at least not for a relative amateur such as myself and looking to move away from MS, does not make the process "comfortable" to explore. For example...a few months ago I had a Power supply go bad and shut down mid boot. Replaced it and all sorts of errors on next Ubuntu boot and could never get it to boot w/o hanging indefinately on a black screen, but my Windows (dual booting) worked fine when it would shut down during boot on it. Things like that make me nervous when making this migration.
I need to be able to restore from this sort of thing w/o having to reinstall the whole damn OS...hence why I am writing for suggestions on installing with possibly more partitions with the hopes that I can simply backup one or more of these partitions and restore easily with a LIVE CD or something like that.
So...with all that in mind...lend me your suggestions oh great Ubuntu gods! :-)
OH...by the way...please also recommend any format suggestions ie: ext3 vs ext4...etc. I would think ext4 would be better than ext3 as logic to me would dictate that it is the next revision and newer/improved version...but...what do I know...I am a n00b.
After I have this information...I just need to find a fix to slow my dang mouse down...I have the WoW mouse and its a very high DPI mouse and even set to its lowest setting is too dang fast to comfortably use...
TIA for your help!