The system now has FC1 and will be upgraded to FC3. I tend to install everything because I like to tinker, and well, it's just less tedious.
The box now has two SCSI drives: 18 GB and 36 GB. I have a new 73 GB drive and am inclined to replace both existing drives with it (less noise and power).
I am looking for recommendations on partitions. That is, for a home desktop system what partition schemes (i.e. /, /boot, /home, etc.) are recommended and why? I am not too concerned with sizes as my current usage is a pretty good guide here.
Here is my current configuration:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dallen]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 7882560 6316848 1165296 85% /
/dev/sda1 132207 13115 112266 11% /boot
/dev/sdb1 17726076 12358548 4467088 74% /home
/dev/sda8 5668740 228192 5152588 5% /opt
none 775132 0 775132 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 988212 17368 920644 2% /tmp
/dev/sdb2 17551988 14972008 1688376 90% /usr/local
/dev/sda6 1976492 289784 1586304 16% /var
seven:/home 230757428 59619540 159416064 28% /var/nfsmounts/sevenhome
Swap is ~1.0 GB and on sda. I will consider giving all of sdb to /home.
Obviously, /opt, /tmp, and /var are underutilized. /opt will be eliminated and the size of both /tmp and /var can probably be cut in half. Swap could also shrink as it's rarely used (1.5 GB RAM).
Is there any good reason to give /usr its own partition? I hear talk about making it RO but I don't know how practical that is on a Redhat GUI system.
What is the benefit vs. penalty of using LVM on a home system, especially for the case where the system has only one drive? If so, what partitions should the LVM FS include or exclude and why?
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