disk partitioning & partition size allocations
I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on
the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8
books on Linux and have loosely studied this OS for about 3 years.
But I am certainly a newbie. So far I have not found a good
general reference about partition sizes. The following table shows what
hardware I have, disks in use, and planned layout for HD-2 (hdb*).
I am concerned about /var in particular ... but will welcome any ideas.
The purpose of the Linux box is to learn Linux. I want to be able to
practice my very rusty programing skills, in the future set up a very
small LAN, and be able to do all the admin. stuff from this main box.
Will the "programming package" give me what I need or should I go
into "dselect" & pick tasks. ( I guess that would help my learning
curve.) Later on, I want to get into HA ( high availablity ) stuff
with a 2nd box being a mirrow of this one.
RE-partitioning of 2nd HARD DISK ( IDE ) = 4.102 GB drive on DELL P-200
MMX ( 92 MB RAM )
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All FILEs are of the ext2fs type.
This will be a multi-boot machine, but the first HD is for M$
Windows only at this date.
The 2nd HD is for multiple Linux distros, Debian = first 2+ GB and
any other L OS will be on whats left.
(( NOTE: First HARD DR. = MicroCrap 98 // 2.1 MB. // FAT 32 ))
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Using PARTITION MAGIC program to do 2ND ATTEMPT partitioning.
SUN 2003-01-26 re-design choices, which have been put on the HD &
checked for bad blocks.
Hope to install Debian V 2.1 ( Slink & a half ) from CD-rom
that I have on hand.
PARTITION TYPES P = primary E = extended L = logical
# TYPE MB FILE PURPOSE or FILE NAME
1 P 643 83 D. kernel, Work Station, develope, Networking.
2 P 128 82 SWAP
3 E for logical partitions - - see below starting w/ # 5.
4 P 1890 83 TurboLinux or SuSE or whatever I play w/ next.
5 L 643 83 debian/usr
6 L 31 83 debian/tmp
7 L 300 83 debian/var
8 L 100 83 debian/var/spool/mail
9 L 327 83 debian/home
10 L 64 83 debian/usr/local
1896+ total
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301887 = Linux registration. // 187256 = hardware # Dell P-200 MMX box.
Thanking youse guys in advance for any help. peace.! David.
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