On Sun, 5 May 2002 19:30, Ken Foskey shouted from the roof tops:
> I am about to embark on HD recovery (the disk is in the mail literally).
>
> I want to restructure my HD to multiple partitions, so I wanted to throw
> out how you would set up a harddisk.
>
> Current:
>
> /
> /boot
> /data (my scrap area)
>
>
> I was thinking of going
>
> /
> /var
/var/www - if you are running a webserver - lets you keep the content intact
in the event of a reinstall, I use 300mb
> /usr
/usr/local - about a gig
> /home
> /data
swap - twice your physical ram - split between all physical drives
>
> Would you include any more than this?
>
> With 256 Meg on board what size swaps would you use? how many? I
> currently have about 128 (will recheck this) and I dont think I use it
> that much. Is there a lot of point going bigger?
>
> How big would you set the relative sizes? (40 gig, double original)
>
> This is fuzzy for me, I would like to discuss on the list about the need
> for partitions as the Linux Workshop is coming up...
>
> KenF
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