On Wednesday 31 December 2003 04:20, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:05, Arash Zeini wrote: > > 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? > > well he is the OP. And AFAICS he is using only one email address.
Maybe I got confused. Sorry. I thought this Sajjadi was the OP :( > Anyway, Farid, my suggestion is to take a look at the archive. All the > messages are there, so you can read them again. > > CHeers > > > 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
