Subject: Disk partitions (Was: Upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2)
From: Paul J. Lucas (pjl@barefooters.org)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 00:51:13 MST
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Jim Cole wrote:
> Partitioning is always a bit of a guessing game, but based on what you have
> said, I would probably suggest about 1 GB /, 128 MB swap, and the rest on
> a /home partition.
1 GB for / seems excessive. What I would recommend and why:
256 MB swap
A simple formula: swap = 2 x memory (I have 127
MB of memory).
A more complicated forula involves how many users
you expect to have on the machine at any one
time.
50 MB /var
This is plenty for mail, logs, etc., unless you
have a lot going on or a lot of users with mail.
/var is separate from / since it's contents are
VARiable (as the name implies), so it ought to be
on a speparate partition could be backed up more
frequently than / that almost never changes.
256 MB /
This is plenty for / is you have /usr on a
separate partition. I like to keep the core OS
stuff by itself. This would have to be backed
up seldomly.
2+ GB /usr
This is big since this is where the bulk of
the software goes (RPMS).
1 GB /home
Also big if you have a lot of users. (In my
case, I'm the only user on the machine, so I
gave myself 1 GB.)
I intentionally keey /home separate from /usr
since the former would need to be backed up much
more frequently than the latter.
100 MB /mnt/ziphd
I created a Zip-disk-sized MacOS partition that
I automount at boot. This is useful for
transferring files bank and for to the MacOS
side if you're paranoid about mounting your
entire MacOS partition under Linux.
1 GB MacHD
This is the MacOS bootable partition with my Mac
software. THis is plenty for what I have on it.
(I still have about 600 MB free.)
Also note that I laid out the swap partition first to be on the
outer (faster) tracks; similarly, I put the Mac partitions last
since they will be the least used.
- Paul
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