Re: About to go all Deb
on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:24:49PM +0000, John Anderson (johnga@btinternet.com) wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> I am relatively new to Linux, been running Mandrake 9.0 for about a fortnight,
> and after lots of reading I have decided to move to Debian.
>
> I have a 80gig drive, and when I installed Mandrake, I let it have its
> defaults for drive mapping which was .........
>
> /dev/hda1 mount / 5.3gig
> /dev/hda5 mount /swap 243meg
> /dev/hda6 mount /home 68 gig
>
> When I get to installing Debian, I would like to do things differently with
> regard to drives. After reading a lot about this, there seams to be no
> optimum for a system, ie its down to user preference, and what he wants the
> system for.
>
> Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would
> appreciate thoughts and guidence.
>
> /boot 20meg
Too small, IMO. If you try multiple kernels, you'll hurt for space.
32-64MB, less will likely suffice.
> / 4gig
*Way* too big.
> /var 8gig
*Way* too big.
> /tmp 2gig
*Way* too big.
> /usr 5gig
Generous, but not overly.
>
> /swap ??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it should equal the ram up to
> 256meg
Size each swap partition to your current memory allocation.
Create enough swap partitions to accomodate the maximum amount of swap
supported by your system. Mount 1-2 times your physical RAM as swap.
This allows you to grow the amount of swap over time without forcing you
to repartition later (always a pain, often a risk).
> /home what ever is left
For my general partitioning guidelines, see:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
Peace.
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