Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

[Onno Ebbinge <Onno@Willem.Alexanderschool.nl>]

Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split 
the partitions by long term usage:

         1- 2 GB  /
         1- 2 GB  /var
         1- 4 GB  /var/spool
         rest on  /home

         Then I link /tmp to /var/tmp

         WHY: The chance that / is being filled by a user
         is small this way. Email and printing activities
         are split from other partitions. Logging, tmp and
         such are split from other partitions. And last but
         not least home directories are split from other 
         partitions.

Ideas and critical remarks are welcome...

Groetjes,

Onno

At 12:48 PM 1/18/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
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>> I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my
>> CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for
>> /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND
>> /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some others. I would like
>> to make several partitions and use them to my best use, I just wanted to get
>> some recommendations from the Expert/Experienced before I partitioned this
>> drive. I also would like to have a few partitions set aside for CD images as I
>> hope to start selling Software on CD as well.
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>I don't know if you're willing to reinstall completely or just want to add
>the space, if you're willing to reinstall I would:
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>	1) Your current hd 4 GB on /
>	2) New hd 5 GB on /home
>	3) New hd 8 GB on /usr
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>That way you'll have more on /home, /usr, /var and /opt (both /var and
>/opt will be on /).
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>If you don't want to reinstall you could set a 5 GB on /home and remount
>your current /home to /var or /opt (whatever you prefer). That way you'll
>have more on /home and on /var or /opt. Then you create the 8 GB, mount it
>somewhere, cp the /usr to that partition, following you mount your current
>/usr to /var or /opt (just the one you hadn't used) and mount that new
>partition to /usr. (It'll probably need a reboot because you can't umount
>your /usr (maybe you can after a init 1 (runlevel 1 single user), I've
>never tried).
>
>Ron
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