Re: Partitioning
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:15:01AM +0800, Chan Chee Seng wrote:
> I split them this way..
>
> 1GB NTFS(for WinNT)
>
> 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux)
>
> 1GB ext2 (Debian Slink)
> is this ok?
Depending on your use of NT, the 1 GB might be reduced.
Your share partition could very likely be reduced to a few hundred MB,
with few ranging from 1-5.
1 GB for Linux is a bit thin. My own allocation is:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 152247 56270 88115 39% /
/dev/sdb5 101089 1146 94724 1% /tmp
/dev/sdb6 303344 271453 16230 94% /var
/dev/sda5 1209572 918124 230004 80% /usr
/dev/sdb7 1517920 1218364 222448 85% /usr/local
/dev/hda6 249871 127331 109640 54% /usr/src
/dev/sda7 585008 263176 292116 47% /home
/dev/hda5 495960 89740 380620 19% /var/spool/news
/dev/hda8 253775 134564 106109 56% /usr/doc
Various things affect how much space you need. In particular, I find
that emacs, TeX, and perl consume a lot of space on /usr, and that
services such as mail, news, proxy cache, and DEB downloads take up a
lot of /var.
I would thin down your FAT partition, give yourself something like 1.8
GB for Linux, plus a 128 MB (or roughly 2x physical memory) swap
partition.
Reasonable default partition sizes, if you choose to split them out
seperately:
/ 40 - 50 MB
/tmp 32 - 100 MB
/var 100 - 200 MB
/usr 1 - 1.5 GB
/home remainder -- 100+ MB
Ideally you'd add more storage to your system down the road. I'm
running an older system with 1x2.4 GB IDE and 2x2.0 GB SCSI. At current
costs, 6-20 GB storage is relatively inexpensive.
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