Best mount point to use for file system (Ubuntu-Karmic)?

Asked by Lori P.

Trying to manually partition prior to a fresh install of Ubuntu-Karmic. (Will upgrade after install.) Got to this point below using GPARTE; am now in middle of CD install.

                        Device Type Mount Pt. Size Location

Partitions: /dev/sda3 ext3 /boot 575 MB Beginning of disk
                       /dev/sda1 ext3 / 35,804 MB Middle
                       /dev/sda2 swap 3,619 MB End

I will be the only user (and admin.) on a single desktop with no sharing, and no server needed except maybe for printing. What should I use as my mount point for the file system?

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Wolf Geldmacher (wolf-womaro) said :
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As far as I can tell your question is not about the Ubutu Customization Kit, but about partitioning a disk drive for use in Ubuntu.

There is a lot of information on this theme on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition and/or http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

If you'd like my personal opinion: For sole use of Linux on small machines (netbook, laptop) I usually create just two primary partitions: sda1 (make this at least the size of memory in the machine, twice the size for machines with less than 1GB of memory) for swap and sda2 for all the rest (mounted as '/' and containing all the other stuff). The order of the two partitions is intentionaly chosen that way because disk drives tend to be faster for the lower numbered partitions (cf. http://partition.radified.com/partitioning_2.htm ). This setup keeps things simple and has worked quite well for me - YMMV.

For machines with a big drive or more than one drive I tend to use a setup with swap and '/' on RAID1 (if possible), and then use LVM for at least '/var', and '/home' on additional partitions - again YMMV and depend on the intended use. The reasoning here is that swap and root file system size is not going to change much over long periods of time, sizes of /var and /home aren't as stable and, especially for multi-user setups or mail/web servers, you will want to be able to manage the growing portions of the filesystem separately for stability (user or service filling up the partition) and flexibility.

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