Nitin Raja Bhatia wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Most people develop a method or formula for Hard Drive Paritioning and
> the different paritions?
> My question is what do you guys do?
>
> some people do just a "/" and swap parition. The swap twice the amount
> of ram and the "/" as big as possible. There must be some disadvantages
> to this method.
>
> What is your method/technique?
Hmmm,
I think you may have started a jihad. <g>
Well I take the total space and do this for a workstation....
200 Mb to /
50 Mb to /var
20 Mb to /root
95 Mb to /tmp
15 Mb to /boot
1200Mb to /usr
500 Mb to /opt
500 Mb to /usr./local
Divide the rest as follows:
1/3 of the remaining to /usr/src up to 1200Mb
1/3 of the remaining to /home plus anything not used by the */src
fdirectories
1/4 of the remaining to /usr/local/src up to 1000Mb
1/12 of the remaining to /pub but at least 650 Mb if available
Why?
Well I tend to install rather than try to upgrade, because the upgrade
paths have been less than clear (in all distros and in Windows as well)
Therefore I like to keep my favorites and such in /usr/local and /opt, with
rpms for various useful things stored somewhere in /home.
/pub for downloading iso images and perhaps a few minor shares (most of
the shares will be in /home)
*/src directories because I like to watch grass grow and computers compute
(though watching a faucet drip has its attractions).
/var and /tmp by themselves to prevent overflow attacks from messing
something else up.
/ there just because and 200 bexcause that's my lucky number. I have seen
/ at 100 Mb but that is thin.
/root on its lonesome partition to limit the damage I can do to myself (at
least in some circumstances). It is amazing how magnetic the wrong buttons
for the mouse cursor can become and how your IQ jumps up about 30 points
AFTER you have clicked the wrong one.
Now, with the classic headless server, I let the defaults take over since
it seems to work out pretty well.
Civileme
