On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 03:49, David Sanders wrote: > I am installing Debian 3.0 Woody on a new machine with a 80GB hard drive and > 512MB of RAM. It will be used as a workstation. I have read the > installation manual, but still have questions about partitioning the disk. > Minimum values are usually given, but no discussion of max or optimal sizes. > The following are given in > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html > / 100MB > /usr 500MB > /home 100MB per user > /var 300-500MB > /tmp 20-50MB > > What would be the appropriate and desirable scheme for an 80GB disk? As you can see from the other posts, there's lots of options... You say you'll use it as a personal workstation, so I would go for simple: - swap: 1G or so - /home: as much as you need (dunno if you collect videos or what... I don't, so I've a 90% free 10G /home). - /: 15G or so - leave the rest unpartitioned, so you can always rearrange things later I'd make swap the first (fastest!) partition (although you'll probably rarely need it), followed by / and /home (/home adjacent to free space, so you'll have no problems growing it if you trust partition editors.) If you run into troubles with /, split of /var, this should give you a bit breathing space. You may also want to split off /usr/local or /opt, if you have some unpackaged software installed. Depending on the software you're using, splitting off /tmp might also be a good idea. But all this can be done with the system already installed, so no need to worry, as long as you have free space to create partitions in. I would strongly advise to have /home on a partition of its own: if you ever happen to reinstall the system, or need to transfer data to another computer, you can use whatever partition editor you want and just be careful with the /home partition and you won't loose any data. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com
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