On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:33, David Z Maze wrote: > Matěj Hausenblas <matejh@pandora.be> writes: > > I have woody on my PC and since it's working perfectly I'm thinking about > > removing my other Linuxes (SuSE and Mandrake, there's no more windows;) > > This action will give me two 2GB partitions, so I would like to ask if it's > > better to make larger /home (which is actually 28GB) or if I should make > > these partitions useful for other purpose: /tmp /usr /usr/local /var (and > > something else?) > > Having a separate /home is definitely useful. In my experience, > splitting out other partitions is far less so; you wind up discovering > that all of /, /var, and /usr are too small, but you'd have enough > room if they were all one partition. (In particular, you want a > largish /var on Debian, but only because APT downloads packages to > there, so if space is tight you briefly need large chunks of space.) > > Since it doesn't sound like you're constrained for space, I'd probably > try partitioning like this: > > / 4 GB > /home 8 GB (or more) > /scratch 8 GB (or more; space for CD images, or can be tossed for > other OS) > ??? 10 GB (certain non-free OS's you need for games) > > > If so, what should be the sizes for it; my system is quite workstation with > > multimedia and some server applications. > > If you have lots of music (mmm, Ogg Vorbis) you might create a > separate partition for that. "Some server applications" don't > actually take up much space these days. Really, you should figure out > what you're using your space for, and allocate your hard drive > correctly. > > At any rate, conventional wisdom seems to be that you should have /, > /usr, /usr/local, /var, and /home partitions. My home machine has a > smallish / (okay), a 2 GB /usr (almost too small), I think a 300 MB > /var (definitely too small) and big /usr/local and /home directories. > The partition that's now /scratch used to be an OpenAFS server > partition. If I were reinstalling the machine, I'd definitely go with > a big / and a big /home over the separate partitions; the flexibility > is nice, and the big thing you lose is constraining the extent to > which bad blocks on disk can hurt you. > > -- > David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell I used to split out /usr/local and /usr/src here, but probably won't until I put in a second hard drive again. On my 40 GB drive, I went with: / 1 GB swap 1/2 GB /opt 2 GB /usr 8 GB /var 4 GB /home 24 GB The /var partition sometimes has filled due to my use of leafnode and some flood of selected newsgroups. The vast majority of /usr is /usr/share - I remember in the pre-FHS days when this was a small, side directory. I have split out /tmp in the past, but it fits fine in / All this said, I have installed numerous things that duplicate each others' functions - I don't need four or five Gnome CD players as a rule, but one client needed to know which would be best because he sells CDs, is moving to Linux, and needs to be able to check out what some CDs that don't actually have any text (just elaborate graphics) are, so they can be matched to the case when sold (to reduce shoplifting, he stores the discs and displays only the cases). As a result, my /usr is noticeably larger than usual. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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