Re: Best partitioning scheme?
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Storage mostly needs to be shared, so I think I need Samba and Netatalk
> (see below). So, after getting input from several people, this is how I'm
> looking to do things:
>
> Drive 1:
> / = 200MB
I think 200 megs is overkill here, but since you have the space, it's
your chance.
[gaddis:jeremy]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 242M 35M 195M 15% /
When I installed Debian on this system, I allocated ~250 megs for /,
which, looking back, was way too much. Its only using 35 megs, and I
don't really expect it to ever make it to 50 megs. Now, I wish I had
only made it 50 megs, because I could use that other 200 megs elsewhere.
> /usr = 1 GB
> /usr/local = 500 MB (is this where stuff like StarOffice, Netscape, WP8
> would go?)
Yep. Looks good.
> swap = 64 MB
> /var = 100 MB
> /tmp = 100 MB
>
> Drive 2:
> /home = 2 GB less swap (personal storage space for 7 techs or so)
> swap = 64 MB
>
> Drive 3:
> /apple = 2 GB less swap (netatalk storage space for Mac software)
> swap = 64 MB
>
> Drive 4:
> /pc = 2GB less swap (samba storage space for PC software)
> swap = 64 MB
>
> How does this sound? Again, thanks!
The only thing is you have 64 megs of swap on each drive. This is a
total of 256 megs. Linux will not make use of more than 128 megs,
unless you're running a 2.2.x kernel. I'd suggest making each swap
partition 16 megs, for a total of 64. This would suit you just fine,
unless you will have lots of memory hogging apps running. In that case,
I'd make each 32 megs, for a total of 128 megs.
Jeremy
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