Re: Partitioning Advice
On 29 Aug 2001 13:49:19 -0600, John Purser wrote:
> I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig hard
> drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine will be my
> network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my
> small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of data. I'm a programmer
> who just wants a test network to play with. The partition scheme I'm
> considering is:
> / 243 Megs
> /boot 60 Megs
> /home 1 Gig
> /usr 16 Gigs
> /var 1 Gig
> /tmp 1 Gig
> /swap 500 Megs
>
> Given the resources and purpose of this machine can anyone see anything
> wrong with this? I haven't found a lot of hard do's and don'ts when it
> comes to partitioning so I copied this from a machine that has Red Hat
> installed and then added the /tmp partition and bumped the /var to handle
> large logs. Then I cut the /home down drastically and dumped the rest into
> /usr.
>
> Suggestions? Comments? Raucous laughter at my expense?
Looks ok to me. I don't know why you'll ever need 16 gigs of
applications and source under /usr but if you think thats where you're
going to need space in the future . . . I'd just make a 2 gig /usr
which has been more than sufficient for me in the past and present.
Then make 14 gigs for whatever I usually just call it mp3 or media for
storage.
--mike
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