[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> major problem with Linux installations is that most people do not create
> separate /, /var, /home, /usr etc...... partitions. So they end up with one
> swap partition and one linux native. This means that they have to be
> skilled enuff to be able to do the 'boot from floppy and do fsck'-routine.
>
> This leads us to the 'ckicken and egg' problem. They are not very
> comfortable with partitions and that is the reason they have initially
> chosen to create only a single / partition.
>
> I dont intend to belittle anybody, its just that partitioning is serious
> business which most people are not comfortable with.
Amit, what are the approximate partition sizes that you would recommend
for a server or a desktop system? I've been looking forward to do this
but my experience with Linux is limited to 3 or 4 systems with 4 gig
disks all. Figuring out optimal partition sizes from such configurations
is largely guesswork.
The partitions that I would normally consider making are:
/boot (about 5 megs, preferably hda1)
/etc (read-only for a server, /etc/mtab being a link to /var)
/var
/var/log (not always)
/home
/tmp
/usr/local
Considering that most distros now put most files in the /usr/bin
directory, I would consider leaving that along with /bin, /lib and /sbin
in the root partition itself. Unless someone wants to argue that /bin
and /sbin are for the most basic binaries, and /usr/bin for everything
else.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://lunateks.com
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