Re: Best partitioning scheme?

[Michael Procario <procario@hepc06.phys.cmu.edu>]

The /var looks large unless you are running servers that keep their files 
there.
The mail spools are in /var and the web server can be configured to keep files 
there. On my machine which is a single user desktop which does run a mail 
server I have 26 currently MB in my /var directory.  I use procmail to my mail 
out the spool and into my home directory automatically.

You cannot spread /home across two partitions unless you use raid. You could 
create /home and /home2 and then symlink all directories on /home2 to appear 
on /home.

There is no magic partitioning scheme. You have to think about what you will 
be storing and allow room for it. I like a /usr/local partition so my hand 
installed code is separate from the system installed code. I can wipe out
my /usr partition such as when I went from Redhat to Debian without harming my 
local installs.

  


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Michael Procario                                       EMAIL: procario@cmu.edu
Department of Physics                                  PHONE: 412/268-3887
Carnegie Mellon University      

              "Another casualty of applied metaphysics"
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