On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mark Abreu wrote: > I've got a Alpha Personal Workstation 500a with a 18GB drive and over > 300mb of memory (I don't remember the exact total at the moment). I've > been practicing the installation of Debian "woody" on this box and think > I've got to the point where I have some questions.
> I'm not sure how I should be partitioning this disk. My "gut" tells > me I need something like a 200mb partition for /boot, another 700mb > partition for swap, and at least one other partition for everything > else. So far I've been calling them a, b and c. Is there a better > rule of thumb on this point? I end up with the 200mb partition be > mounted as / and the large partition as /usr, but I'm not sure this > is what I want. I've got PWS 433au with a 18GB drive running Debian testing/unstable. Here's my partition scheme: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1.1G 47M 961M 5% / /dev/sda4 2.2G 33k 2.1G 1% /tmp /dev/sda5 2.2G 366M 1.7G 19% /var /dev/sda6 4.3G 744M 3.3G 19% /usr /dev/sda7 7.5G 2.2G 5.0G 31% /l Swap is on /dev/sda2 and is 1GB. After installation I symlinked /home -> /l/home and have all my locally installed software under /l. This scheme has worked very well for me. Jaska
