I remember back in '99 when Brandon W. Beasley wrote:
> I got me a new 6 gigger. I have read about as much as I should on various
> partitioning schemes. But, why should I not simply create one partition?
>
> If partitioning is truly wise, then what is the current wisdom for breaking
> down a larger hard drive into linux partitions?
This is indeed an interesting question, and one that I'd like to
get feedback about as well. Even if you don't have a really great
rationale, I'd like to see what people do..
You probably could do worse than this:
/ .5 GB
Pesky old bioses required this to get LILO to work, but I still think
it is nice to have a non-huge root partition.
/home .5 - 1 GB
This depends on how much you like to use your home dir for storage,
and how many users you anticipate. I like to keep /home and /
distinct to keep from filling up / with user files. Note, if you're
really cautious about this you would want a distinct /tmp and
/var/spool as well[1], with a smaller root partition.
/usr 1 - 2 GB
If you're a big fan of installing software this is going to need space.
/scratch whatever is left over.
This is the catch all. I use this drive for downloads, compiles,
mp3's, anything that takes up big hunks of space, that I don't
need to keep in my home directory, and that could probably
disappear without critical loss of usability.
Don't forget you can use symlinks to make your life easier.
I have a fairly baroque setup on my 486 at home, since it
has 3 drives and at one time has two linuxen, DOS, and Win95
on it.
/dev/sda1 495666 418267 51800 89% /
/dev/hda2 350306 310958 21258 94% /system
/dev/sdb1 495666 418443 51624 89% /usr
/dev/hda1 153520 112696 40824 73% /dos
/dev/hda3 525387 433009 92378 82% /scratch
/system hold various spool directories, my boot files, and some
/usr/src stuff.
/scratch has a newsfeed and some other junk like a dl directory.
You can go too far with the symlinks, but at least it's flexible.
Matt
[1] Follow this, and you get A Traditional UNIX file layout, with
about a half dozen partitions and lots of wasted space, but less
vulnerability to other problems.
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