Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:55:19 -0700 (PDT),
Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote in message
<[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1030831044418.19888A-100000@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>:
>
> hi ya hershel
>
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Hershel Robinson wrote:
>
> > I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are:
> >
> > Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400
> > AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz
>
> have lots of nice fans ... at least 3 chassis fans
> 2 by the cpu/power pully and add one or tw more fans in the front
> of the (midtwoer) case
.._silent!_ fans.
> > My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with
> > Windows 2000. I need the Windows system, at least for now, for work
> > purposes. I also may want to store images in a shareable location
> > and I presently have 5Gigs of digital pictures on this Win 2K
> > machine.
> >
> > My thoughts are to set up:
> >
> > 10G Windows 2K system and software
> > 10G Shareable data (FAT?)
>
> i'd look at how much windoze disk you're using now
>
> linux can read/write windoze files ( msdos, vfat ) directly
> - do NOT use linux to edit/delete ntfs files on windoze
>
> - ie.. if you're using vfat, you wont need the 10G of shared
> space
>
> - be sure that window is loaded into /dev/hda1
>
> - make a windoze boot floppy .. !!!! it will save your butt one day
> make a dos boot floppy too ( for doing "fdisk /mbr" )
>
> > For the rest, however, I am uncertain. The machine has 256M DDR and
> > I have 512M more coming so I plan to make a 768M swap partition.
> > Beyond that, the web pages I have found discuss mostly minimums for
> > / /usr /tmp and /home. I also read that more than 6Gig can create
> > problems for ext2 partitions. So at this point, I'm between those
> > minimums and 6Gig. :)
>
> if it was my machine ...
>
> 10GB /windows /dev/hda1 - find out how much space you're
> using now and double it??
..leave it alone, he's gonna _want_ 30GB for linux. _Eventually_.
He just needs to experience the why's for himself, as we all do. ;-)
> 256MB / /dev/hda2 - keep small as possible
> 256MB /tmp /dev/hda3 - keep small as possible
> /dev/hda4 extended partition - not for data
> 512MB /var /dev/hda5 - keep enough for logs
..ditto for /var/log , /var/www is a good place to test and develop
your web site buyers stuff, but /var/www/* can also be symlinked from
/home/aoga/work/websites/* , myself, I just create new users for
everything new I do: arnt@a45:~/kernels$ ll -G /home/
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 52 arnt 8192 Aug 31 15:20 arnt/
drwxr-xr-x 4 benkesto 4096 Jul 22 00:26 benkestok/
drwxr-xr-x 3 debian 4096 Jun 9 21:39 debian/
drwxr-xr-x 4 fly 4096 Jul 7 17:37 fly/
drwxr-xr-x 3 gas 4096 Jun 9 21:39 gas/
drwxr-xr-x 42 ipcop 4096 Jun 10 21:03 ipcop/
drwxr-xr-x 3 job 4096 Jun 9 21:39 job/
drwxr-xr-x 3 knoppix 4096 Aug 16 10:51 knoppix/
drwx------ 2 root 16384 Jun 9 14:41 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 3 mdk 4096 Jun 9 21:39 mdk/
drwxr-xr-x 3 njus 4096 Jun 9 21:39 njus/
drwxr-xr-x 10 ogg 4096 Jun 10 20:32 ogg/
drwxr-xr-x 3 pol 4096 Jun 9 21:39 pol/
drwxr-xr-x 3 rh 4096 Jun 9 21:39 rh/
drwxr-xr-x 3 sa 4096 Jun 11 18:15 sa/
drwxr-xr-x 9 support 4096 Jun 22 23:15 support/
drwxr-xr-x 3 wifi 4096 Jun 9 21:39 wifi/
drwxr-xr-x 13 xarnt 4096 Jun 10 20:05 xarnt/
drwxr-xr-x 4 zulu 4096 Jul 18 03:33 zulu/
arnt@a45:~/kernels$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda10 251M 129M 109M 55% /
/dev/hda1 45M 21M 22M 48% /boot
/dev/hda6 9.8G 34M 9.2G 1% /tmp
/dev/hda7 20G 16G 3.6G 81% /var
/dev/hda11 25G 23G 1.4G 94% /home
/dev/hda9 9.8G 2.1G 7.2G 23% /usr
/dev/hda8 9.8G 2.8G 6.5G 30% /usr/local
/dev/hdb5 73G 54G 15G 78% /mnt
arnt@a45:~/kernels$
> 2048GB /usr /dev/hda6 - keep enough to load new code
..I would say 3 G, and 1 G for /usr/local , but YMMV.
> 512MB <swap> /dev/hda7 - add memory if you need more mem
..depends on what you do, I use 2 times the maximum supportable
by the main system board, to minimize down time on upgrades.
> rest /home /dev/hda8 --- maximum space for you ---
>
>
> move /var/www to /home/www so that user data is separate from system
> /var files
...and symlink'em... ;-)
> move /usr/local to /home/local to keep user stuff away from system
> stuff
..puts everything in one boat, ok, _not_ how I do things. ;-)
..keep an eye out for journal failures with 'cat /proc/mounts \
|grep " ro ", you in _some_ cases want a prompt reboot and fsck,
both Debian and Red Hat will merrily keep you unaware of it on
'mount -v | grep ro ', for _days_.
..in /etc/fstab, some ext3fs'es has "errors=remount-ro" in the
options column, consider "errors=panic" for important stuff you
dont wanna lose,say isp traffic logs etc, and toss in "panic=20"
or some such in your bootloader setup.
> for various flavors of partition schemes and reasoning
> http://www.Linux-1U.net/Partitions
>
> c ya
> alvin
>
>
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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