Different Types of partition in Linux?

Question

Plz give details

Answer 1

Not a very detailed question.

Usually there is a swap partition and a root partition. On OpenSUSE, a swap, root and /home partition are created. This makes it easier to update the OS as the installer leaves the /home partition alone and rewrites the root partition.

You can create more for different purposes.

Answer 2

You can have numerous partitions - that is up to you. I use /swap   / (root) and /home. I have read that /var is a useful partition to have, but I will let you figure out why. Size of the partitions will be determined in part by your distro as well as how you plan to use the machine - lots of music, pictures, dvds means a lot larger /home partition.

There are a variety of partition formats as well. swap is apparently in an unformatted condition (or formatted as swap). You can then choose from numerous formats - ext2 being the oldest commonly used format. ext3 adding journaling and speeded up crash recovery. If you go to reiser and the other more specialized formats, you can optimize for file size / cluster size / other characteristics, but they also bring their own unique sets of problems, and you lose the easy access available from windoze (to ext2 & ext3) or some recovery options.

www.google.com and www.wikipedia.com will give you the details if you are interested.

Answer 3

boot --> 100mb

swap --> 2x the amount of RAM

/ (root) --> you can specify the size or use all available free space

or are you referring to file systems such as Ext2 and Ext3?

Answer 4

Boot

Swap

Root