On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, jfmurphy wrote:
> Partitions are always a stumbling block. I have been tempted just to do a
> /, /boot, /swap/ and not have to worry about it. But the rule is it's not
> good for security.
>
> I opted for the Mandrake to suggestion partitions in setup of my 20 gig more
> then enough to handle anything. That gave me a /, /boot. /swap. /home.
> The default / directory was 1.5 gigs, since that was the suggestion I left it
> as it was. I did split up the /home directory that was huge with 14 gigs and
> added /usr, /opt and /iso. Now I figured I would be all set with no problem
> to add what ever came along.
>
> A few weeks later I check my drive space and I have only 400 megs left in my /
> directory. Now I have only added a network install of Office5.1 that should of
> been the only program that would effect / directory as far as space. Now my
> concern is I plan in a few months to network two other computers on a home
> network. It seems that I might be getting tight here in this directory on
> future networking hopes with only 400 megs left? I assume most of the
> networking programs are already installed? I think any future programs
> installed across a network would be in the / directory so I have questions on
> how I stand here.
>
> John.....
>
Nah don't even worry about it till it hits around 50mb then you need todo
weekly (or maybe more often) checks on / my mail machine barely has 40 :)
start makeing use of the /opt directory you made (where you maybe should
have put staroffice), seeing as you have a /usr mount also anything
installed to /usr/local doesn't use /'s disk space either, so the only
things that should be useing space of / are /root and /var you shouldn't
see much change in any of the other directorys and of course you should
avoid /root as much as posible. The only things that will go to this mount
are spools config files and misc other stuff absolutly needed for booting
before all the partitions get mounted.
