On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:15:49PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> Anyone have any suggestion for a partitioning scheme for a 10 GB SCSI drive?
> I have an 850MB IDE I thought I might use for /boot, since I have it lying
> around. I thought I might make at least one partition of say, 500 megs on
> the SCSI drive for /home (I'll probably be the only user) and leave the rest
> for /.
> Any other ideas??? I also have another 850 IDE I could throw in the
> machine...it's not doing anything, just lying around. :-)
Well the way I'd do it is such:
hda1 /boot 150meg so that you can store a few kernel images
hda2 /tmp 700meg nice bit of temporary space
sda1 / 1gig if you plan to use console more then X. even then
it's severe overkill. go 1.5gig though if you plan
on going X-happy. Though that's overkill also ;)
sda2 /var 512meg lots of room for logs, mail, printqueue and whatnot
sda3 /home 512meg how many users are you planning on having on your
machine? This should be enough for a couple or so.
sda4 /data 8gig while I hate having partitions >2gig in size, what
else can ya do. :) This should be for all your data
storage, src code, d/led rpms or debs, gfx, snd,
anims, etc. Also where you might be compiling your
programs and so on.
Now, if you want to stick to 2gig partitions (I do for ease of backup. it's
easier to stick a 2gig partition on a 2gig tape then to stick a 4gig
partition on a 2gig tape ;) then split up /data into /data/gfx, /data/snd,
/data/src, /data/wrk or whatnot.
Alternatively you may want to do:
sda1 / 256meg root device. should contain everything you need
to rescue and boot your system. Overkill so you
may want to do 128meg or whatnot.
sda2 /usr 1gig all your user proggies. inc X.
and adjust the rest to fit.
Oh. and there's no reason to stick to multiples of 2 for partition sizes.
fdisk will make them bigger if need be to fit properly on the disk anyways.
I just like doing it this way.
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