Re: Partition scheme for Debian installation
Craig,
Thanks a lot for letting me know of this.
BTW, I am a bit confused about which flavor I should choose:
I've read the installation manual and found out there are 4 flavors for i386
architecture. The main
difference seems to me is that:
vanillar: standard kernel package, almost all drivers built as
modules
compact: built in support for popular PCI Ethernet devices, supports
common RAIDcontrollers
idepci supports only IDE and PCI devices
bf2.4 EXPERIMENTAL, but support newer hardware compoonets,
supports EXT3 and Reiser file system
I tend to choose bf2.4 for it's newer hardware support and EXT3 journalling
file system. But the word "experimental"
scares me a bit.
Cheers,
Wei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Genner" <craig@gennerfam.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: 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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