Please bear in mind that this is a Unix reply, but it should hold true for
Linux.
The only reason for splitting partitions into /usr /var /tmp etc, is to
position them on different disks for performance. If you have only one disk,
you won't see any performance difference between one huge / and lots of
smaller partitions. I don't know of any safety implications, but if you get
a fault on a drive, it takes the drive out or a platter out, not a
partition, so you would still lose everything.
There are other restrictions though. The first is the 2 Gig one. Any
partitions greater than 2 Gig need to be split. Our common layout here is
/u01, /u02 etc, with the first 2 Gig being given to /. (Please, no flames
from Linux users saying this is wrong, I don't know how close Linux and Unix
are, but at least this post should put people in the right direction).
The next one is swap. Linux can only use 128Meg of swap in one file, larger
swaps require multiple partitions. If you do have 256Meg though, it will
take a serious load to get it to use swap!!!
And the final one is /boot. The restriction for this is it has to be below
1023 cylinders. The safest thing I have seen is make it about 5 Meg, and put
it right at the beginning of the drive, before DOS/Windows/etc. PQMagic
methinks??
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph |byte-runner | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 1:16 PM
Subject: [newbie] what is?
Hello All,
Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive
partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean
is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing into like a
/usr/
and the such?
Also I wanted to thank everyone who has helped me the last few times.
Ralph --
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