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i see that in http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora_14_install_guide guide it suggests to have the following partition schema:

• /boot 0.5gb
• / 20gb
• /home 10gb
• /var/hda/files for the rest

questions:
1. what is the advantage of having separate partitions for / and /home?
2. i was thinking to have a 10gb / partition and no /home partition. i would keep the /boot, /var/hda/files on separate partitions. i saw that fedora does not use much space and it seems wasteful to use 30gb for / and /home. is that a good idea?
3. i see that it suggests to include in the greyhole pool the /var/hda/files. i know that this is the default landing zone for all shares. inlcuding the / partition to the pool could cause issues. wouldn't inlcuding /var/hda/files to the pool cause same issues. what is our take on this?
4. i see that the suggested size for /swap is 2x ram. i'm using 2gb or ram so that would be 4gb of swap. i see that fedora is using very little ram. would a 2gb swap be more than enough?

I can't answer all of your questions, but:

1. The reason for having separate / and /home partitions is to allow an easy upgrade or re-install of the OS without messing with your /home/ directories. If you have to re-install, you just tell the new installation to use the existing /home partitiion without reformatting it. All of your existing files will be carried over to the new installation. I would strongly recommend this strategy.

2. I think it depends on whether you (or someone) will be using the hda as a workstation or if it is just going to be a server. If someone is going to actually work on the machine, you need to leave space in / for additional applications/features that you might want to install. 10 GB would be pretty limited in that case.
/home has the same issues. If you are actually working on the machine, your /home partition will fill up pretty fast.
I would follow the recommended layout.

3. I can't answer this, as I don't use greyhole.

4. I've always used 2X ram. 4GB is a really small amount of disk space these days. It is a cheap performance improvement if you run a lot of apps.

I think the install guide offers a pretty good suggestion for the layout.

Perhaps you can tell us how you intend to use your hda? Maybe we can offer better suggestions.

Good luck!

thanks for the response. taken note of what you said.
first of all the machine will be headless media/file server where i would stick hdds and access stuff via lan/wan.
the question 3 was answered by the guy with french name: Guillaume Boudreau (to wich i'm very grateful) that covers the greyhole forum area. the answer is that it's ok to add that mapping to the greyhole pool.