64 Partitions

Partitioning of your hard drive(s) can be as trivial as creating just two partitions, one for swap and the rest for the installation and everything else—this is the Debian default and recommendation for new users. Or it can be as complex as creating many partitions for different parts of the system to use. An argument for creating multiple partitions is that filling up one partition won’t impact on other partitions (which could be a problem if the system is unable to function properly because the disk is full). Also, corrupting one partition (although rare) won’t affect another, thus it is good to keep the system partition separate from the user partitions. Finally, having all user files (e.g., /home) on its own partition can mean that you can reinstall the operating system without wiping out the user files. The decision is yours.

---

Your donation will support ongoing availability and give you access to the PDF version of this book. Desktop Survival Guides include Data Science, GNU/Linux, and MLHub. Books available on Amazon include Data Mining with Rattle and Essentials of Data Science. Popular open source software includes rattle, wajig, and mlhub. Hosted by Togaware, a pioneer of free and open source software since 1984. Copyright © 1995-2022 Graham.Williams@togaware.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0