On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Traci Collins wrote:
> > Now you see why I, after two years, I only use three partitions: swap, / and
> > /home. Swap is obvious. /home is where I store downloads and files I want to
> > keep. Everything else goes in /. When it's time to upgrade, I only format and
> > fresh reinstall in /. It's clean. It's efficient and I always have the right
> > size partitions :-)
>
> That makes a certain amount of sense, so, what is the magic number in
> /? I was basicly trying do something similar by giving / it's own
> partition. I set it for 100mb because Redhat suggested 50-80mb and I
> wanted to be conservative. Obviously, the definition of a
> conservative is changing but I am curious as to how big it needs to
> be?
You're looking at it the wrong way, Traci... you need to decide how big
you want /home to be... that's the question you need to ask. Once you've
decided that (and how big your swap is going to be) give *everything* else
to root...
For example, on my system I have:
swap - 70MB
/home - 2GB
/ - 11GB
Why? Well, this gives 2GB for user files and downloads and whatnot.. more
than enough I think. The other 11GB goes on root... if you don't
specifically make a /var, or /usr or any other partition for a directory
off the root directory, it all becomes a part of the / partition... make
sense? For example, that 11GB is being shared by /var, /etc, /usr, /sbin,
and so forth. That way I don't have to worry about how much to give /var,
of if I've given /sbin too much, or any other problem associated with
defining limits for directories. I always found that silly, tried it
once, and it pissed me off so much I reinstalled just to make (to me) a
*proper* directory structure (which is swap, /home, and / and that's it).
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