On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote: [...] > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would > appreciate thoughts and guidence. > > /boot 20meg You dont usually need a seperate /boot partition. I have installed a few linux machines and have never bothered with making it seperate > / 4gig I dont think that you will need this much space for the root partition. A few hundred megs should be more than enough. I have 2 20Gb hard drives and my root is only 200Mb although it is 90% full. Nothing much goes on there. > /var 8gig Here as well, I cant see you needing much more than about 4Gb unless you intend to use large databases / websites or somesuch. I have a workstation which has a var 256Mb and a small server with a couple of small databases and a couple of sites with var of 10Gb but it actually so far uses only 1Gb. This is including a couple of hundred megs for squid proxy > /tmp 2gig /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should be enough > /usr 5gig 5Gb should be more than enough although I dont think you will need much more than 2 - 3 unless you plan to install *that* much software > /swap ??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it should equal the ram up to > 256meg One way to do this If you have over 256Mb Ram, match the amount of ram you have, so 750Mb. If the memory is less than 256Mb, then double the amount of ram. There are good guides for this stuff that you can find online and would be a bit more complete than what I just said. YMMV, HTH, Shri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar Vital State Email: shri@vitalstate.co.uk Web: http://www.vitalstate.co.uk An Open Source FPS
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