On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:37:21AM -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I am planning to re-install Red Hat and add 2 GB to /home and /usr each > (b/c I will need to install Win4Lin by creating a Windows "partition" in > /home). I plan to cut the root and tmp partitions to 1 GB each. > > Any comments? > > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 2522048 95608 2298324 4% / > /dev/hda1 147766 8965 131172 7% /boot > /dev/hda3 5036316 103112 4677372 3% /home > none 257180 0 257180 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda5 2522048 89340 2304592 4% /tmp > /dev/hda2 5036316 2003808 2776676 42% /usr > /dev/hda8 13756872 87112 12970936 1% /var
Well, I don't know about Win4Lin, but in general, I'd say your root directory is much too big. Once you're set up and running, / doesn't grow very much. It says ~ 100M used, I'd set it at 200M. As someone else says, /var is pretty big, too. Since I'm not running any public servers, I usually make /var pretty small, throw all the leftover in /usr, and symlink /home to /usr/home and /var/log to /usr/var_log. That may allow a denial of service of your /usr partition if someone floods your log, but for a personal machine, that's unlikely. Personal preference, I guess. If Win4Lin does tricky stuff in /var, it may need to be bigger, but I think 12G is excessive. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
