On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:35, Hans Wilmer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:41:55AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > > > > Question for the list: > > What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition > > so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future? > > Make it 2 GB as a minimum; that you'll need more than 4 GB is unlikely > for quite some time. > Umm, I'm actually chasing around the limits of an 8 GB partition for /usr, as I have pretty well all of Gnome and KDE on this system, as well as a significant amount on /usr/src (at least the source of each of three editions of kernels, that I reference with Lilo) and over a gig without any real effort under /usr/local (a few games from Loki pads that out quickly.) /usr/share is a significant block now. When I first looked at it a few years back, it was only a few MB at most, primarily the fortune files and things like miscfiles (ISO codes, area codes, airport codes, etc.) It is now over 2 GB here. The consideration is simply how many things you plan to install, and how complex of a system it will be. I have 2 GB as well for /opt, which is normally substantively full, but much of what is there tends to be software I'm testing, rather than regular things (such as Netscape 6 and 7, Phoenix, IBM WebSphere and DB2, etc.) > But keep in mind that both 2 and 4 GB can get too small: My /usr > partition is 4.3G and holds 2.0G, but besides I'm using an /opt > partition to store games, staroffice and such. That makes for another > 5.5G. > > For /, I've never needed more than 100 MB. You can do with 60M for it, > if you want a tight setup. > > Plan to have your partitions no more than about 50% used, except when > you have spare disks at hand or no choice. In case you need to copy > some partition over to another, this will be very helpful, and > partitions tend to fill up to more than 50% automagically anyway. > > In case you're low on disc space, try to keep those partitions small > that will contain mostly static data, like /usr and /, to the benefit > of others. > > Use 64M for /tmp at least, better 128. What you need for /var depends > on the services using it --- make it at least 256M when you've no > special needs. > > And don't forget to setup sufficient swap space :) > > > GH -- 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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