On Monday 05 Jul 2004 06:25, MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>wrote:

You might not care about the above, though, or be prepared to live with the risks to get the flexibility of having one large partition. You can make arguments for each of the other common partitions, but the ones I can think of seem unlikely for most desktop users.

I think I may just go for a 17gig / partition, especially as I always put a duplicate 'spare' or 'extra' install on the second disk with both installs sharing duplicate swap and /archive partitions, (I lost a years email's once). that would give me 2 installs of Slackware and space for one of Debian and one of something else I might like to try. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)