Re: How to partition hard drive?
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:57:44PM +0200, Allan Andersen wrote:
> If it's for personal use I would use something like similar to this:
>
> /boot - 16 MB bootable
> swap - 2 x amount of RAM in the PC
> / - the rest
that's a great first-install concept.
how big your partitions are will depend ENTIRELY on what you use
your computer for. graphics leans this way, web server leans that
way, and gamer's paradise is completely different altogether.
there's no set defined best way for all instances. you gotta
figure it out for yourself.
after you munge and install and remove and configure and add and
download and tweak -- for a month -- you'll finally have things
running the way you like.
THEN you do a
du /usr/local
du /var
du /home
du /etc <-- just kidding
du /usr <-- subtract /usr/local, of course
to find out how much you've used.
i'd rank each as a PERCENTAGE of the entire disk space, unless
you feel like keeping a large partition at the end in case of
"i'd sure like to break off this subtree" emergency...
then do
dpkg --get-selections '*' > ~/installed.packages
and back up /home and /usr/local, reformat, repartition to
reflect your usage percentages:
/boot = 10mb or less?
/ = % from 'du' above
/home = % from 'du' above
swap = 2 * ram
/var = % from 'du' above
/usr/local = % from 'du' above
/usr = % from 'du' above
the partitions that are busiest should be in the middle, IMHO.
now you can restore /usr/local and /home, then reinstall your set
packages with
dpkg --set-selections < ~/installed.packages
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