"Kanthi" <TechAlerts@gmail.com> wrote:
> What i want to know is if I want to make all the partitions before
> starting installation ,how should i proceed
>
> eg:
> /
> /bin
> /sbin
> /root
> /usr
> /opt........etc .......in this case what should be the sizes of each
> partition and how should i consider them ?

Some directoreis has to be on the / partition. These directories are:

/bin
/dev
/etc
/lib
/sbin

Reasons to place directories on separate partitions might be:

1) You might want to share this partition with another OS installation. So
the same /home and /usr/local could be used by both Slackware 10.0 and
10.1.

2) To avoid corruption of the / partition you might want to place
directories with a lot of writings like /tmp and /var on their own
partitions. Today with journaling file systems this is not as important as
it once used to be.

3) To keep the root partition small you might want to place big
directories like /usr, /var and /opt on their own partitions. Once again,
this used to be more important before the journaling file systems.

4) If some user or application fills up the disc you might want to protect
other directories from being filled by placing them on different
partitions.

The sizes of your partitions will be a compromise between how big disk you
have and how much software you are going to install.

regards Henrik
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