Re: Partition suggestions.
On 2/13/08, Nuno Magalhães <morceguinho@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
I prefer to have / and /home because that allow a full reinstalation
without touch the user datafiles...
> Thanks in advance,
> Nuno
>
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