On Wed March 24 2004 17:47, Andrew Graupe wrote: > Curtis Sloan wrote: > >On Wed March 24 2004 16:44, Andrew Graupe wrote: > >>I will be setting up a new linux system in the near future, and I am > >>deciding what FS to use. I will probably use a 50MB /boot partition, a > >>256MB swap and the rest will be given to the root partition. > > > >A single / partition makes it simple, which is great for testing, but if > > you plan on keeping the install around for awhile, definitely partition > > more. At least /usr should have its own, if not /var and /home. > > How big should these partitions be?
Sort of depends on how much you're installing/where you plan on putting stuff/where other stuff likes to put itself/what you're using your install for (e.g. all 7 Debian CDs, /usr vs. /usr/local, /tmp and /opt, web server vs. gaming vs. desktop?). I made my /home ~800MB. Turns out I use very little of it. OTOH, I've had to expand/add partitions like /usr/local since I download and install so much crap onto my system (I can't help it, I'm curious! ;-). Here's my current layout: $ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 134 84 50 63% / /dev/hdc6 793 505 289 64% /home /dev/hdc7 487 372 115 77% /opt /dev/hdc8 369 86 283 24% /tmp /dev/hdc9 2550 1818 732 72% /usr /dev/hdc10 1836 969 867 53% /usr/local /dev/hdb3 3915 1688 2228 44% /usr/local/storage /dev/hdc11 267 70 197 27% /var As you can see (hopefully the formatting came out alright; works w/ fixed font), it's kind of a hack. But maybe it will give you some ideas. Here's the rundown: / contains everything you don't see in the rest of the list (/etc, /bin, /sbin, /boot, etc.). I didn't bother separating /boot. Probably not a bad idea, though. / is comfortably used. /home is only as full as it is because I downloaded a legal DivX the other day. Otherwise it is not usually very full. For me, ~800MB was overkill. But if you're installing all your WINE programs to ~/.wine it may be good. /opt is where KDE puts all of it's stuff; it's comparable to /usr/local in that it's traditionally meant for "outside" packages. But basically it just means "KDE" these days. I had to expand mine to what you see now for KDE 3.2.1. /tmp is the size it is because some installers like to extract to it and for certain game installers, I needed ~350+MB. Otherwise, it doesn't get used much. /usr should be pretty big; that's where most of the stuff goes. If you're installing a full distro these days, 1.5-2GB+ is not unreasonable. /usr/local got full and I was given another hard disk, hence /usr/local/storage. Now /usr/local is my outside programs, /usr/local/storage is all my downloaded packages. These are totally up to you. Most default source compiles will install to /usr/local unless you use the ./configure --prefix=/usr option. So these are up to you. /var can be pretty busy if you're running a server or a busy system -- that's where most logs end up, so I made it ~250MB+ in anticipation of playing around w/ Apache, et al. It's kinda unused since I'm not doing that yet. I hope this gives you some ideas. If you Google, you may find other suggestions as well. HTH, Curtis > > >Speaking from experience. :-) > > > >>I plan to > >>format the /boot partition as ext2, as I don't need journaling for it. > >>I have heard good things about ReiserFS, but I have never used it. On > >>my other linux systems, I use ext3 for the / partition. > >> > >>Which filesystem, in your opinion, is better? > > > >I actually don't know. I've used both, but lately I've been using > > ReiserFS (v3.6). There are a few kernel updates in 2.6.5 (in Release > > Candidate right now) for ReiserFS. Ext3 is more actively supported (er, > > fixed?) in the kernel since it's not run by any one company > > (www.namesys.com) -- at least this is my perception. Correct me if I'm > > wrong. > > > >Curtis > > > >>The hard drive in > >>question will either be 80GB or 120GB. > >> > >>Andrew > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>clug-talk mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
