On 7 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Currently, I've got my primary HD (/dev/sda1) containing a number of
> different partitions - root, home, usr, var, swap, etc.
>
> What would be recommended / suggested here? That I further partition my
> RAID device? If so how should I do this?
There are a few different schools of thought. I belong to the school
that recommends a small number of partitions, like this:
/ About 4Gb, big enough to hold a full modern Linux distro.
including root, usr, var.
swap As big as you need. I've always run with a swap partition of
about 100Mb - which is often smaller than physical RAM. This
goes against the accepted wisdom, because I feel that the system
becomes unusable quite quickly once the machine becomes swapping
very much.
/spare Big enough to hold a whole new Linux distro!
/home The rest of the drive, especially if you make /usr/local just a
symbolic link to somewhere there.
/C: Often you may have a legacy OS partition, too. :-)
This arrangement makes it very easy to upgrade from one version of the
OS to another - especially if you have a /spare so you can try the new
OS out and gradually settle in.
I find that if you partition too finely, you can never predict how big
each partition really should be, so you either waste a lot of space by
making each partition much bigger than it needs to be, or else you end
up with each `optimally' sized partition running out of space over the
years, and having to resize them.
Keep it simple, basically.
luke
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