Re: 120GB Hard Disk, Debian and Partition Suggestions - single user
hi ya
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, David Wright wrote:
>
> > What are the general recommendations for large hard disk and Debian
> > workstations?
>
> This is a high-end, single-user machine? Here's my recommendation: don't
> bother with partitions. At very most, make a /var partitions so an
> out-of-hand log doesn't bring you down.
i think "single user" bootup is extremely important... if you ever wnat to
be able to fix the server that went on vacation...
booting into single user implies that / is clean
so keeping / minimal is extremely important
we would not want to be prevented from getting nto single user
mode ( 256MB of it ) just because the rest of the 100GB
of partitions is corrupt
order of other partitions does matter to some extent...
/ /tmp /var /usr swap /home
/home swap /usr /var /tmp /
...
/boot ???
/usr/local is a separate partition ??
/var/cache/apt
...
which is better ... still waiting for sombody else to do the tests
- things to do with seeking and reading the inside tracks vs the
outermost tracks
i like the following scheme ...
/ 256MB or less
/tmp 256MB
/var 512MB
/usr 4096MB
swap 512MB
/home rest of disk ( is actually /opt/home )
- most of your system files/executables should be in memory...
--------
size of partitions is highly dependent on the user ...
- where oyu put downloaded files
- where you compile sources ( /home/you vs /usr/local/src
collection of partition stuff and howto
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Installation/partition.gwif.html
c ya
alvin
> Partitions a very inflexible solution to what for single-user machines is
> basically a non-problem.
>
> On servers and multi-user machines I run, I spend time worrying about
> isolating volumes, but instead of paritioning, I just buy loads of
> independent drives. A much more scalable solution. My home machine, on the
> other hand, is very simple: / and /var partitions on one drive, /home on a
> sperate drive.
>
>
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