Re: [Debian-User] Partitioning Scheme

["Nuno Magalhães" <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>]

As Eduardo suggested, LVM is a good bet since it alows you to resize
partitions. This is my partition scheme for my desktop (which i intend
to reinstall soon):

deb64:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              23G  6.4G   16G  30% /
tmpfs                 991M  8.0K  991M   1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   88K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 991M     0  991M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4             108G   78G   25G  76% /home

The / partition has too much unused space and there are some 15GB of
the disk take by an unused XP. Maybe i'll play with virtual machines
later on if i really need something specific from Redmond. The /home
partition has 25GB free after a superficial sweet of unused files
(movies), it used to be 99% full. If i only had the / partition that
would cause me problems, as you stated. (luckily my mldonkey will halt
if /home is beyond a limit).

Normally i choose only two partitions: / and /home, that suits my
needs for a desktop system. If you're serving stuff, separating /var
might be good. I just don't know why does Debian create two
similar-sized tmpfs if i already allocate swap as well.

I'm considering LVM for this machine.

My €0.02

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Nuno Magalhães