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Partition suggestions.



Greetings.

Yes, it's a religous question but i'll try to lmit it.
This is my df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4              13G  8.6G  3.6G  71% /
tmpfs                 991M     0  991M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   76K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 991M     0  991M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda10            373M   11M  343M   3% /tmp
/dev/sda7             4.6G  3.7G  731M  84% /usr
/dev/sda8             2.8G  387M  2.3G  15% /var
/dev/sda6             100G   78G   23G  78% /mnt/win64

1) What's with those two tmpfs? Are (both) really necessary? Isn't swap enough?

/mnt/win64 is a FAT32 that will become ext3, it has most of my
personal stuff. I want to leave most of the disk for my /home and
8.2GB of / are actually my /home already, meaning i have about 86GB of
user files (the biggest chunk of it in a folder called "to_filter").

This is a regular desktop and i'm gonna do a reinstallation. These
partitions were done automatically 'cos i was already counting on a
reinstall - there's a 20GB XP Pro partition that's gonna be reduced to
15GB if i don't decide to wipe it out completely (oh, wait, games...).

Usually i use / and /home only. This is a 160GB Maxtor drive.
2) How about 20GB for / and everything else for /home?
3) is it worth it to separate /var and /usr on a desktop system? Why?
Why not? What sizes?
4) What's standard on keeping important parts of the filesystem from
being full and halting the system? Once i did have / full and it was
crazy to fix it 'cos it wouldn't boot.

Thanks in advance,
Nuno

-- 
Fica bem, porta-te mal.
Be well, misbehave.


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