On Monday 29 December 2003 23:00, A. Sajjad Zaidi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:48:02PM -0800, Arash Zeini wrote: > > On times I used to have three different distros on one laptop, but now > > I have two and use a scheme like this: > > One thing that I actually tested for partitioning was the performance of > different areas of the disk. Partitions at the beginning had data > transfer rates upto 2x those at the end. Following this, it makes sense > to put swap and often used data at the beginning. > > > /boot: 32 MB > > That might be a bit less if you plan on playing around with kernels. I > usually give /boot about 70MB. > > > /: 5 GB > > I rarely give / more than 3-400MB. The reason is that if something goes > wrong and starts filling up your disk space, / is not the place you want > inaccessable. > > Here is what I would usually do with a 40GB disk on a desktop system > with 256MB RAM and 2 distros: > > /boot: 70MB > /boot: 70MB (2nd distro) > <swap>: 1GB (shared) > /: 400MB > /: 400MB (2nd distro) > /tmp: 512MB > /tmp: 512MB (2nd distro) > /var: 1GB > /var: 1GB (2nd distro) > /usr: 7GB (mounted readonly) > /usr: 7GB (2nd distro) (mounted readonly) > /home: 10GB > /home: 10GB (2nd distro) > > Looks a bit cluttered, but there are quite a lot of advantages of > separating the partitions. Some, like /var and /tmp change very often > and have a higher chance of file system corruption. And certain > exploits, such as those for hard-links, don't work across partitions. > > By separating them, you can minimize issues like this, though you do end > up wasting some space. > > Hope that helps.
Depends a bit on what you want to do. I would never make too many different partitions on a normal, day to day desktop system. Changes if we talk about a server. But I would always recommend to make a partition for /home. That pays off. If /var falls under / you need a bit more space there. And I had forgotten about /swap. I have also a 1 GB swap to share between the two distros. I have a 32MB /boot for both distros and have around 5 different kernels there and yet /boot's usage is less than 50%. How many kernles do you have on a running system, that you need such a big /boot? Arash -- The FarsiKDE Project www.farsikde.org _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
