Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)
With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be
sufficient:
/ 32M
/var 96M
swap 32M or more.
/usr all the rest
/home is a symlink to /usr/home
/tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp
For more than 150 megs of disk space, I have found this the best way of
partitioning. For less, you are correct, one big filesystem is the only way
to go.
For your average user, with their brand new 4.3 gig harddrive (smallest you
can buy these days), it's the only way to go.
BTW, one great thing about Linux is, fsck is incredibly fast compared to BSD
:-)
Thing is, if you crash, you can boot in single user mode, and fsck'ing /
will be almost instantaneous, and you'll have a usable system, instead of
being stuck waiting for fsck. You can then fsck /usr at your discretion.
The "one large partition" scheme is indeed the only solution for small
drives. But given they are in such a vast minority, the current scheme of
providing sensible defaults and popping the installer into a tool for
creating your own arbitrary partition scheme is really the best.
(at least, Im ASSUMING we do that the same as FreeBSD... I haven't installed
Debian in a while. Just duplicated already working drives)
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Justin Penney wrote:
> About partitioning.....
> Please leave it alone. I have always had smallish hard drives and use Debian
> for my desktop (and my servers but...) I actually recommend 1 large partition
> and swap space for nearly every "user". I don't do that for myself but i have
> run inot mucho trouble because of bad predictions on my behalf. I don't want
> anyone else carving up my hard drive because it's actually wasted space to me.
>
> I currently have / and /home as the only seperate partitions, i keep my home
> dir and it's easy like this. How do you divide a 113? What about a 420? what
> about a 1.2 or 6.4 or 13.2? Too many variables no one way to do it.
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