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Re: About to go all Deb



On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:52 pm, Kent West wrote:
> 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
> >/		4gig
> >/var		8gig
> >/tmp		2gig
> >/usr		5gig
> >
> >/swap	??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it should equal the ram up
> > to 256meg
> >
> >/home	what ever is left
>
> You're right, it's a matter of personal preference and needs. All of
> these partitions (except swap, which I'd probably make 1.5GB - twice the
> RAM, not that you'll ever need it probably with 750MB RAM, but you've
> got the drive space, so why not) are huge by my standards. I'd probably
> take a few gig from some of these and combine them to make a /scratch
> partition, just for future unknown needs. But again, it's personal
> preference and needs, and I suspect what you've got here will last a
> long time for you unless you're doing some really disk-space intensive
> things, like making digital movies.

Not quite up to digital movies yet, still finding my way around, thanks very 
much for your input.

-- 
Regards
John



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