Re: partition this thing!
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> I'm about to install on or move to a new hd, and I'd like to divide it
> up. I've read faqs and howtos, but I can't help thinking that if I
> partition it by "feel", I'd just end up wasting alot of space.
>
> Ok, the drive's in another machine right now. reading it's case, it has
> 6448.6 mb.
>
> This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant
> /home, right? Anyone feel like helping?
i have a HD about that same size. My setup is as follows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 76M 20M 52M 28% /
/dev/hda5 729M 243M 448M 35% /home
/dev/hda6 486M 110M 351M 24% /var
/dev/hda8 2.1G 1.6G 409M 80% /usr
i also have about 485.30M free for future use. /tmp is a symlink to
/var/tmp (if /tmp is a partition and a user can give boot commands (i.e.
to lilo), it opens a security hole)
If i would repartition again, i'd probably make / only 50M, and maybe take
100M or so from /home. Probably split /usr/local off of /usr, but that's
because i do a moderate amount of development (665M worth at the moment).
No /boot, that fits comfortably in / (and i usually have 2-3 old kernels
installed). / should really only contain /bin, /sbin, /dev, /etc, /lib,
/root, and /boot. None of those should be very big, since Debian follows
the FHS guidelines that only essential things go in any of those.
i'd keep a good sized /var, especially if you symlink /tmp -> /var/tmp.
People will tell you it's not needed, but a week or so ago the thing got
half filled by pump debugging information, logging a good .5K every 30
seconds. So i patched pump to shut it up, rather than deactivate all debug
logging.
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