Am Mon, 2003-05-12 um 12.06 schrieb Wei Wang: > 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 800Mb swap is maybe a bit much. If you have 256Mb RAM, 400Mb swap will do (heck even 300 is enough). > 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?) Heh, i have close to 100.000 mails in my archive and they don't even fill up *one* Gb. > /tmp 100MB > > So now / is left with 2.5GB. Is that going to be enough? For a desktop-only system to which no untrusted person has access to, i recommend the following partitions: /var/log 300Mb (you don't want syslog to fill your HD with errormessages if you have faulty RAM etc. Putting /var on its own partition isn't really necessary) /home 8Gb Always put anything important into /home/$USER. Will make upgrades / new installs a *lot* easier! /tmp 300Mb Not really needed, but doesn't harm either. / The Rest IMHO it's not necessary to put /usr,/opt or /usr/local on its own partition if your / is big enough, it just complicates things on a desktop machine. If you need more space on / later, you can still add a new HD to use as /usr and/or /usr/local, /opt later! PS: Be sure to choose ext3 as filesystem. In my experience it's much more robust than reiserfs! HTH and happy installing! -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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