Re: Disk partitioning strategy?
On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Peter Halvorson wrote:
> If I do break up the disk, what sizes work well?
> (50 MB /, 350 MB /usr, 50 MB /tmp, and the rest in /home?)
This might be useful:
myrddin:~$ df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda3 32711 12285 18737 40% /
/dev/sda2 32711 325 30697 1% /tmp
/dev/hda1 32091 1764 28670 6% /boot
/dev/sda5 991995 892845 47900 95% /usr
/dev/sda6 100118 12026 82922 13% /var
/dev/sda7 793846 680243 72593 90% /anon
/dev/sda8 119951 95388 18369 84% /home_1
/dev/sda9 119951 65784 47973 58% /home_2
/dev/sda10 119951 109873 3884 97% /home_3
/dev/sda12 665079 19 665060 0% /cdprep
/dev/sda13 384604 324321 40419 89% /home_4
As you can see, very little actually goes on the root filesystem. There's
not much in /boot either. The size of /var will depend on how busy your
system is, and for how long you keep logs.
/usr is extremely full because I've had to put files in there when other
partitions got full. I regularly need around 350Mb of scratch space to
build the Debian X packages.
/home_? contain around 70 user home directories.
/cdprep (and another partition of the same size, not mounted at the
moment) is exclusively for preparing CDs.
/anon has my Debian mirror and various user's anonymous ftp directories
in it.
Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk
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