RE: Best partitioning scheme?
I have a similar yet somewhat different question re: partitioning.
I have all my Linux stuff on a single 1GB ext2 partitioned drive and a 85 MB
swap partition. I mount my Win98 drive (3gb) at boot (fstab) as a vfat
drive. All works fine.
My question is when I install Linux stuff, I might want to put some on the
vfat drive. Are there any issues with this? Can I move say /usr/local to
the vfat mount? How?
Thanks in advance for the SNQ (silly newbie question).
Andrew MacKenzie
-----Original Message-----
From: wtopa@ix.netcom.com [mailto:wtopa@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 4:44 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme?
Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme?
Date: Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 06:22:20AM -0500
In reply to:Jeremy
Quoting Jeremy(jeremy@gaddis.nws.net):
>
> 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.
>
Ohhh? Only 128Meg? Don't think that is correct. I believe
that, if
you check, linux will use up to 8 swap partitions of (a max)
of 128
Meg _each_. I think that 2.2.x has increased that limit.
(haven't
checked tho)
My 2 cents on your partitions. When I was using kernel
2.0.36 and
staroffice I had it crash on occasion when I had 1 125 Meg
swap
partition. I solved it by adding another 125 meg
partition. I find
that Gimp & ImageMagic ran better with the ~250 Megs swap as
well.
I have 4 different dists running and have 250 Meg assigned
to /.
None of them have reached 100 Meg yet ( one is at 86 Meg and
it is
used at the softwate test system), 100 Meg seems kile it
would be
fine.
IMHO 1 Gig for /usr is smart. Depending on how much
non-debian
software you 'might' load up, 500M-1Gg for /usr/local would
be a safe
bet also.
HTH
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>
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