On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Rob wrote: > Dont know of a cookbook but think > about what you need machine to do. > Like if its going to have lots of users you need more /home > if it a DB server then where to the DB files go ? /var ? Then need lots of > /var, > etc > If its just your home PC then it dont hurt to make one '/' root partition > and just let it all live it there. > As for swap I used to use a rule of 2xphysical Ram which I still > think is a pretty good rule but these days my machines have plenty > ram so dont really get to use much swap. That said disk space > is cheap so unless you got small disk give em 2xphsyram or more. > > Rob
Good points. I'd also like to add the following: ReiserFS apparently works best with a single partition, so the single / is not only easier, but probably most efficient for a home user. This does make upgrading a little more difficult though, since the /home partition cannot be formatted separately. For a server I try to allocate a large /var partition because logs and rpm files go there. If this was on the root partition and filled up it could bring down your system. Also, databases sometimes put their files there (e.g., mysql in /var/lib/mysql). Another thing to look into is the LVM system (Linux Volume Manager). It's a logical volume manager similar to Veritas that lets you dynamically allocate space. > > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 02:26, you wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a cookbook doc on partitioning? Not the > > mechanics, but how much to allocate. How much to allocate to /, swap, > > /usr? Should /usr/local and /home be on the same partitions, separate ones? > > > > Etc. > >
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