ladasky
May 16th, 2009, 09:57 PM
Hi folks!
I have a desktop x86 box which has been running Ubuntu for a few years. I started with v6, and eventually upgraded to v8. I partitioned my hard drive when I installed v6. At the time I read that it was recommended to have a dedicated disk swap partition, a system partition, and a user partition. So I did that. As I upgraded my OS, the underlying structure of my hard disk was left unchanged.
I just acquired a laptop onto which I installed v8 directly, without the upgrade history of my desktop machine. The default configuration of the v8 installation was a single partition spanning my entire hard drive. I chose that, and everything seems to be working...
...but now I would like to know, what is the reason for the change? Are there benefits and drawbacks to each method? Since I'm about to put together a new desktop system to replace my old one -- with RAID 1, no less -- I want to know what is the best way to proceed.
I have a desktop x86 box which has been running Ubuntu for a few years. I started with v6, and eventually upgraded to v8. I partitioned my hard drive when I installed v6. At the time I read that it was recommended to have a dedicated disk swap partition, a system partition, and a user partition. So I did that. As I upgraded my OS, the underlying structure of my hard disk was left unchanged.
I just acquired a laptop onto which I installed v8 directly, without the upgrade history of my desktop machine. The default configuration of the v8 installation was a single partition spanning my entire hard drive. I chose that, and everything seems to be working...
...but now I would like to know, what is the reason for the change? Are there benefits and drawbacks to each method? Since I'm about to put together a new desktop system to replace my old one -- with RAID 1, no less -- I want to know what is the best way to proceed.