At 12:13 PM 08/27/2001 -0400, Scott Parks wrote:
>Just a simple question, how are most of you setting up your file systems
>for install?
>/boot
>/
>/swap
>/usr
>/var
>/home
>
>or are you doing one big /
>
>Coming from BSD we did the first with all the different partitions.
>
>-Scott

With a big enough hard drive (or if it is multi-drives), I usually set up a
/, /usr, /var, /home, /backup, and /tmp if it's going to be a server.  For
a workstation, you'd be okay with just a /, /home (for all your user
files), /usr/local (for custom compiles), and possibly a /archive (for
backup copies).

The last install I did was Mandrake 7.2 on a testbox that has 2 hard
drives, both with less than 2 GB of space, so I did a / on the small 820MB,
and a /usr on the larger 1.2 GB drive -- and managed to fit everything,
with space left over (/ was only 12% full, /usr was around 50% or 60%
full).  Of course, I'll have to re-do it again anyways, since the 2 4 GB
drives in our server will get swapped out for 2 20 GB drives soon.

Michael

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Michael Viron
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