Here's what things look like on my FreeBSD system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a248M 56M171M25%/
devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev
/dev/ad4s1e
On Jun 16 at 9:30am, Paul Lussier wrote:
With a modern system, there are no technical requirements that
mandate multiple filesystem partitions. You can have one giant
partition for all files.
You can, but I would recommend having at least a 2 partitions, / and /var.
I "recommend" having m
On Jun 16, 2005, at 19:39, Tom Buskey wrote:
/boot because it can't be on a journaled FS (or couldn't in the past.)
Or in today's world, /boot can't be on an LVM volume. I like to put as
much on LVM as possible so I can add disk in a hurry if needed.
I keep a /boot of a gig or so (yum upda
On 6/16/05, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 9:16 am, Puissante wrote:
> > I would strongly suggest using Grub over Lilo -- mostly for religious
> > reasons. Actually, I've always used Grub and have never touched Lilo
> > except maybe once in the past, and I like
On Thursday 16 June 2005 9:30 am, Paul Lussier wrote:
> A separate swap is always good to.
Absolutely. In Linux you can also have a number of different swap spaces.
While it is possible in Linux to use a file instead of a partition, it is
not advisable because the swap file would require more ove
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jun 15 at 6:25pm, Peter wrote:
>> I am new to Linux, and by new I mean that I have yet to install it,
>> but that will be happening shortly. Anyway, I was hoping to get
>> suggestions on partition sizes. I have a 200GB HD. This system will
>> be sm
On Thursday 16 June 2005 9:16 am, Puissante wrote:
> I would strongly suggest using Grub over Lilo -- mostly for religious
> reasons. Actually, I've always used Grub and have never touched Lilo
> except maybe once in the past, and I like being able to reconfigure Grub
> settings during the boot pro
As a *beginning* user, I would say creating / as one partition is fine.
Using it for home, you probably don't need the sophisitication that the
others mention.
What you are probably more interested in as a home user is having a
central place for all your home machines to store their files. In
On Jun 15 at 6:25pm, Peter wrote:
I am new to Linux, and by new I mean that I have yet to install it, but that
will be happening shortly. Anyway, I was hoping to get suggestions on
partition sizes. I have a 200GB HD. This system will be small, maybe three
or four home users, and may or may no
"Peter" writes:
> I hope that I am posting this in the right place. If not, please forgive
> me.
> I am new to Linux, and by new I mean that I have yet to install it, but
> that will be happening shortly. Anyway, I was hoping to get suggestions
> on partition sizes. I have a 200GB HD. This system
I hope that I am posting this in the right place. If not, please forgive
me.
I am new to Linux, and by new I mean that I have yet to install it, but
that will be happening shortly. Anyway, I was hoping to get suggestions
on partition sizes. I have a 200GB HD. This system will be small, maybe
three
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