Re: Partitioning
Andrew writes:
>
>
> Owing to the fulness of my Linux partition, I have bought a 1.2 Gb
> harddrive. I'm intending on transfering Linux to this, leaving win95 to
> fester on my old 800 Mb one. I think I'll want two partitions besides swap
> for robustness and performance, but how do I divide the filesystem up?
>
> Can I just copy everything directly across and point LILO at
> the new hard drive, or are there other issues at stake here? The new
> harddrive is slaved to the old one, but LILO resides in the MBR of the
> primary, right?
[snip]
Paul writes:
>
> Hello Andrew, there are a few things you need to do first with your drive
> before you can move your linux onto it. You have to partition it first,
[snip]
> /dev/hdb1 50megs /
> /dev/hdb2 50megs swap
> /dev/hdb3 1000megs /usr
> /dev/hdb4 100megs /var
> This is one senerio to look at. your logging is in a different partition
> and / is not effected by what /var does. The other thing you could do in
> this situation is make a symlink from /home (where user accounts are
> stored) to something like /usr/friends/. This way user accounts are
> stored on /usr partition and root won't fill up so easily. Another
> alternative is the following.
> /dev/hdb1 50megs /
> /dev/hdb2 50megs swap
> /dev/hdb3 800megs /usr
> /dev/hdb4 300megs /home
> This senario you have your user accounts on a different partition and your
> /var is off / so your logging is in /. I don't like this way because you
> have to consider how much space to give users and the only way to give it
> is from your user partition. The first example I think is the best.
> because your logging and user accounts are not in / and you use as much or
> as little of /usr.
How about this:
/dev/hda2 100 Meg /home #slice off the back 100Meg of the win95 drive
and Paul's first suggestion!
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