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Re: Oh no, not partitioning again!



On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 17:32, PMA <PeterArmstrong@aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> Hi List.
>
> I plan to install Squeeze pretty soon, and am reviewing
> my old decisions re disk partitioning.  I will mainly resize
> proportionally to my 'df -k' output's Used column.
>
> But two items puzzle me:
> /srv    I gather this is important to have,

Not really, unless you run a server and want to serve
stuff from there. I use /srv for my file share, www space,
git, etc.

> but I have yet
>         to find anything *in* it.  Will Squeeze put stuff in
>         there if I haven't expressly told it too?

Nope.

>
> /tmp  As a rule of thumb -- i.e., special considerations
>         notwithstanding -- what do you think of making
>         this the same size as /var?

That has worked out for me, but I usually have plenty of room.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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