Subject: Re: partition sizes
From: Andrew (sharpa@softhome.net)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 23:18:06 MDT
>If you are going to put all of the partitions on one drive, just create a
>"/" root partition. Linux will install everything in the one partition and
>you don't have to go through the partition sizing hassle. Putting /usr,
>/home, /var, etc. in separate partitions is good if you are going to put
>the partitojns on separate drives.
Its good to have extra partitions especially a /home. That way if you hose
your setup you can reinstall without losing any of your personal files.
Personally, i like to have a 500MB /, 1GB or more /usr, and 128MB swap, and
whatever is left /home. That has been fine for me.
Andrew
>
>Sy Bensky
>subensky@lvcm.com
>
>
>
>At 10:36 PM 6/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>I have a 4Gb SCSI External drive that I want to use only for linux. I
>>used to have it with 3 partitions:
>>300Mb HFS - MacOS & Linux Exchange
>>3.7Gb - Root
>>64Mb - swap
>>
>>But now I want to do more partitions for /usr, /var, /etc, /home. What
>>are the recomended sizes (I plan to install almost everything) ?
>>
>>
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>>
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