Re: partition magic-ally
prash <iprash@gmail.com> wrote:
| hello,
| i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
| favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
| (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
| i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
| / : 7.0 gb
| swap : 1.5 gb (i have 512mb ram)
| /usr : 4.0 gb
| /usr/local : 18.0 gb (i WILL install anything/everything out
| there)
| /home : 4.0 gb
| /home/prash : 4.0 gb (i am ego(t)istic that way)
| /boot : 0.5 gb (is this enough?)
| /var : 1.0 gb (is this enough? this is NOT a mail/news
| server)
| ----------------------------
| total : 40.0 gb
| ----------------------------
|
| now, the questions (!):
|
| 1. why should i (and how can i) define a /tmp partition when i don't
| know what temporary space each app might take? a dvd burner might
| decide to take 4 gb, a regular app just 10 kb. if i go higher it's a
| waste 95% of the time, lower and i risk some apps not working well.
| (this is why i don't have a /tmp defined above: i decided to let the
| app take how much ever it wanted out of / (root))
|
| 2. suppose i reduce the partition sizes of some of the folders above
| and keep aside, let's say, 5gb of "unpartitioned/empty/unused" space.
| can i later merge this space with any other partition based on need?
| (for example if /usr/local becomes larger than 18 gb - and friends who
| are aware of my downloading skills know that that can happen - can i
| merge it with this free 5 gb to make it 23 gb?)
|
| 3. any other suggestions/rearrangement of my partition scheme?
|
Sample here of debian/sarge with many packages
installed/servers/mail, etc.. :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1,1G 162M 855M 16% /
/dev/hda2 52M 25M 25M 50% /boot
/dev/hda10 13G 6,7G 5,6G 55% /home
/dev/hda9 897M 8,1M 841M 1% /opt
/dev/hda6 6,5G 3,3G 2,9G 54% /usr
/dev/hda7 897M 272M 578M 33% /usr/local
/dev/hda8 1,1G 213M 804M 21% /var
/dev/hda11 4,6G 545M 3,9G 13% /backups
mess-mate
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A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
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