One thing that almost all machines do, that often gets over-looked, is upgrade from time-to-time. Installing a new version of the OS or a different OS is always best done from scratch and of course you will backup before doing this, but you might be able to save some time if your own data in /home, /var/some/apps/stroage/path, /usr/local and /opt is kept in different partitions to the system stuff in /usr and /etc for example. If all goes well you won't need to format these partitions and restore this data - some applications in /opt and /usr/local may no longer be compatible, but they might be okay. You might choose only one of /opt and /usr/local; I have my own rules which mean I end up with both (smallish stuff in /usr/local, big applications in /opt/<appname>
Nick. >On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:52:26 +0000 >Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > >>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 >>
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