On Tuesday 30 December 2003 21:15, ocean wrote: > Arash will you please resend your reply to my > partitioning scheme email? Because for some odd reason > I haven't got it!
I am not sure I get what you want? You didn't ask the question, or are you the same person with two different emails? Arash > --- "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 -- The FarsiKDE Project www.farsikde.org _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
