Re: Partition scheme for Debian installation
Why not give LVM (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html) a go, that
way you can set up partitions. Then later if you decide that one has too
much space and another not enough you can change it with relative ease.
Craig
On Monday 12 May 2003 11:06 am, Wei Wang wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
>
> I'm just about to install Debian on my laptop and am wondering if I could
> have some advice on partition scheme.
>
> I have assigned a swap partition of 800MB and have 14GB left. I've been
> reading the "partitioning for Debian" section of the installation of Debian
> manual for intel x86, and also "securing Debian HOWTO" has a few passages
> for partitioning. So I've had a rough idea of what factors I should take
> into consideration. But I still have some little questions. I will use my
> laptop mainly for personal use, not as a server. So my concern for
> partition is mainly for safty reason. It seems that these directories
> should be put on a seperate partition:
>
> /usr/local or /opt (I learned this is for non-distribution software) So
> this can be very big if I install lots of non-distribution software? for
> example, DBMS, sun java jdk, Jbuilder, etc. Should I mount /usr/local and
> /opt to the same partition later? Otherwise I'd need 2 seperate partitions
> for them? /usr I planned to give this directory 8GB
> before I heard about putting /usr/local or /opt a seperate partition. /home
> 1.5GB?
> /var 2GB? (Since I won't be running mail server, I
> wouldn't need a seperate /var/mail partition, right?) /tmp
> 100MB
>
> So now / is left with 2.5GB. Is that going to be enough?
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