Arash will you please resend your reply to my partitioning scheme email? Because for some odd reason I haven't got it!
--- "A. Sajjad Zaidi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > A. Sajjad Zaidi > Sr.System Administrator > iinix Solutions (http://www.iinix.com/) > GnuPG Key ID: 0xD7AD0E13 > "Bugs that go away by themselves tend to come back > by themselves." > > > > _______________________________________________ > bna-linuxiran mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
