On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Peter Halvorson wrote: > If I do break up the disk, what sizes work well? > (50 MB /, 350 MB /usr, 50 MB /tmp, and the rest in /home?)
This might be useful: myrddin:~$ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda3 32711 12285 18737 40% / /dev/sda2 32711 325 30697 1% /tmp /dev/hda1 32091 1764 28670 6% /boot /dev/sda5 991995 892845 47900 95% /usr /dev/sda6 100118 12026 82922 13% /var /dev/sda7 793846 680243 72593 90% /anon /dev/sda8 119951 95388 18369 84% /home_1 /dev/sda9 119951 65784 47973 58% /home_2 /dev/sda10 119951 109873 3884 97% /home_3 /dev/sda12 665079 19 665060 0% /cdprep /dev/sda13 384604 324321 40419 89% /home_4 As you can see, very little actually goes on the root filesystem. There's not much in /boot either. The size of /var will depend on how busy your system is, and for how long you keep logs. /usr is extremely full because I've had to put files in there when other partitions got full. I regularly need around 350Mb of scratch space to build the Debian X packages. /home_? contain around 70 user home directories. /cdprep (and another partition of the same size, not mounted at the moment) is exclusively for preparing CDs. /anon has my Debian mirror and various user's anonymous ftp directories in it. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
