----- Original Message ----- From: Mathieu Jobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 7:06 pm Subject: (clug-talk) partitioning for Linux.
> I now thinking buying a 120gb because its cheaping per gb. > And think about creating those partitions.... > > /tmp 1gb that's probably big enough > swap 1gb ( i dont mind on a 120gb) sure > /var 5gb sure especially if you use the default location for database files that redhat uses for mysql and postgresql (presumably they haven't changed this practice) > / 10gb why so big? the directories that use all the space are /tmp and /var. without these its sufficient to make this 512Mb. > /home 20gb sure. > /usr 20gb you must have a lot of executables. unless you load a lot of games you won't need more than 5Gb or at most 10Gb. > Win2K 20gb just run linux and you can add this to /home :^> > Test 10gb (just for trying different OS/distrib) > Data 30gb (extra data movie and music (Fat32)) see the note for Win2K > > any other idea ? > > thanks for you input. > > Mathieu > > -- > <Neil> Using spaces for indentation is like using tabs for carriage > return. >
