Re: hard drive partitioning questions
on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:50:20PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn (rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) wrote:
> Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> >i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system
> >(i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap
> >partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions
> >i should specify. i'm reading the the woody installation how-tos [1],
> >and am kind of confused.
> >
> >i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole
> >thing, right? i'm thinking:
> >
> >/dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?)
> >/dev/hda2 -- /usr (83) -- 1G (too much?)
> >/dev/hda3 -- swap (82) -- 128M (i have that much physical RAM, and
> > that should be sufficient, right?) should i make this
> > hda1?
> >/dev/hda3 -- /var -- 2 or 3 G, as per suggestion of [1] (i like apt)
> >/dev/hda4 -- /tmp -- 50M-ish?
> >/dev/hda5 -- /home -- the rest, all for me :)
Answering the original question: I'd adjust that a bit. More /usr,
more swap partitions (you don't have to use them all, but it's a hell of
a lot easier than repartitioning later), slightly larger /tmp, and
you've got the right idea for /home. Note too that you'll need extended
partitions to fill this out.
Details:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
Peace.
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