On Thursday 09 November 2000 13:12, you wrote: > should know of any special considerations before I set up the > partitions. I hope this being Monday, and your e-mail being from Thursday, this isn't going to be a day late and a dollar short but oh well. First of all, I suggest taking a look at the FHS at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ . It has the latest file hierarchy infomation for Linux. The distros may not yet be 100% compliant, but you can be :) On the partitioning there are two major things to keep in mind, the file system structure and the physical disks. My partition tables usually look something like this /boot 15MB /var 400MB /swap 128MB /tmp 400MB /home 2GB /usr 2GB / 1GB The sizes are obviously not the same but are included to show relationally rough size comparisions. Its good sense to put /var on a separate partition so if a log runs rampant you won't fill your root filesystem and not be able to log in. Putting /home on a separate partition will allow you to keep data across new installs, but keep in mind the uid/gid problems that may occur from doing that. The /usr partition is where I install most third party software, until people can agree on the use of the /opt vs. the use of /usr, I leave /opt alone since not much touches it right now. I segregate /tmp for the same reason as /var, something runs rampant in the /tmp directory, it only fills the /tmp partition. And /boot I keep out because I still haven't upgraded lilo and need to put it in the first 1024 cylinders :) The physical disk structure is also something to take into account. I have built more workstations than home boxen (even my home boxen tend to be workstations) so I put partitions that access speed is more critical closer to the spindle, i.e. in the lower cylinder ranges. This may be a tweak that has no real impact on performance and disk access times, but it makes me feel better :) That's what I think a decent partitioning scheme is, but I would like to hear what other people have to say. Hope this isn't too late and helps.
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