-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu March 25 2004 00:33, Shawn wrote: > Following Curtis's lead... > > Here's my current layout: > > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 9547 2830 6717 30% / > /dev/hda4 103588 10378 93211 11% /home > none 220 0 220 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda1 76 6 67 8% /boot > > I made / a fair size to handle the programs I was aiming to install. > However, I did not see the need (in my particular case) to break out the > /var, /usr, etc folders.
It's preferable to have /home on a separate partition from / as well as /var/log put on a separate partition. /var/log doesn't require a large partition, but for some reason you had something generating massive amounts of entries in to the log files, then you would not choke the OS if these got too big. They could only take what space was allotted in the partition - not the entire physical drive. This is also true with /home. There are some things that log to your home directory...or if you happen to be downloading lots of stuff...you are limited to the size of your partition. If you run into problems, then you still have the ability to log in as root and clear out some space. Neil Bower Registered User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYqKhL5PebEz22pURAuemAJwI8fVsLL846aTuqmwbxlhuX7NflwCdF81p KFmnErkhByzEimnMW1i2Bao= =q7U9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
