Re: partition recommendations
With a 2.4 GB IDE and 2x2.1 GB SCSI:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 152247 54883 89502 38% /
/dev/sdb5 101089 16302 79568 17% /tmp
/dev/sdb6 303344 193071 94612 67% /var
/dev/sda5 1209572 948492 199636 83% /usr
/dev/sdb7 1517920 1218352 222460 85% /usr/local
/dev/hda6 249871 127331 109640 54% /usr/src
/dev/sda7 585008 194212 361080 35% /home
/dev/hda1 157044 119212 37832 76% /mnt/dos
/dev/hda5 495960 74844 395516 16% /var/spool/news
/dev/hda8 253775 128974 111699 54% /usr/doc
/dev/hda2 1007992 597564 359224 62% /mnt/misc1
...note particularly /, /usr, and /usr/local. I had to split out
several /usr subdirectories because 1.2 GB wasn't sufficient, ditto /var
after adding a locally-hosted leafnode usenet server.
I generally prefer isolating /tmp, /var, /usr, /usr/local, and /home,
and would tend to give the bulk of space to /home. If I could get away
with fewer partitions, I would, but given my physical disks, this is
pretty much how it crumbles. The system's got a lot of stuff on it -- I
like to try things out <g>.
You'll also want probably 2x physical memory as swap. Guessing you've
got an IDE drive, you'll get slow performance from this.
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:22:37PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> With an eye toward upgrading to Potato, and hearing
> all the horor stories about slink->potato upgrade
> failures I decided to do a fresh install from scratch.
> So I obtained a brand new 27GB drive from
> www.compgeeks.com (check them out, great bargins!). I
> will have a small (say 100 mb) "/boot" partition at
> the front of the disk (to avoid cyl 1024 problems with
> lilo), and a 128mb swap partition. Other than that
> any good ideas on how to partition the disk? In the
> past I have just made the rest of the drive one hugh
> partition for "\" to avoid figuring out how much to
> allocate for everything. However with 27GB of space I
> guess I can make a few errors without much horror.
>
> I intend for this machine to be a workstation (machine
> is a PIII-500 with 128mb dram), and will be developing
> software/packages with an eye toward becoming a debian
> developer (whenever new ones are being accepted
> again). BTW I still have slink on the other disk
> (13gb "/" partition).
>
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