I have a follow-up question...
Being utterly uncertain of the sizes of the different parts of my file system,
why should I partition it at all (I understand the Swap issue)??
What is the down-side of having a single large partition? Please elaborate,
because I can't see it.
Niclas
Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote:
> I am upgrading my Samba file server with a 13 GB hard drive. I would
> appreciate suggestions as to how the HDD could be partitioned. I use
> Slackware 3.5, kernel 2.0.34
>
> What I have in mind is as follows:
> hda1 /dos 200 MB #just to have another door into the HDD,
> not to install win95 or anything
> hda2 / 2 GB
> hda3 /home 8 GB # or should this be split to smaller partitions
> and linked back to /home?
> hda4 /usr 2 GB # I read somewhere that this could also be
> /usr/local
> hda5 swap 128 MB # I have 16 MB RAM but I thought might as
> well use the maximum possible swap partition.
> What is left is less that 1 GB and I could put in in / or /home or spread
> it around
>
> I vaguely remember reading that partitions could/should also be devoted to
> /var
> /tmp
> although I am not that familiar with them, esp /var
>
> I tried the HOWTOs but did not seem to find anything on the subject. If
> there is one, pointing to
> the right direction would be appreciated.
>
