Re: Partition Scheme for installing Debian Squeeze
Am 10.10.2012 um 00:41 schrieb Wally Lepore:
I am at the critical point in the installation process known as the
partition set-up. I have chosen 'manual' set-up for the partitions and
have arrived at the part where its asking me to partition the 2nd hard
disk (sdb). I have not advanced through this section therefore I do
not know what questions will arrive next. I don't want to mess this
up. I will be installing debian-squeeze to its own hard disk (sdb) in
a dual boot set-up.
The installer ask you, if you want to keep your Win-installation.
My partition scheme (that I have not set-up yet and based somewhat on
the above link) will be as follows:
1st Partition -- Boot Partition
/boot -- Type: Primary -- 500MB -- Ext4 journaling file system --
Location: Beginning
Second Partition -- Root Partition
/ -- Type: Logical -- 15000MB -- Ext4 journaling file system
-- Location: Beginning
3rd Partition -- Home Partition
/home -- Type: Logical -- 60000MB -- Ext4 journaling file system --
Location: Beginning
SWAP Area
Swap -- Type: Logical -- 2000MB -- Ext4 journaling file system --
Location: Beginning
If there is no serious reason I always partition swap + / (all in one
root)
The experience showed me that overpartitioning is time-consuming later.
It depends on the intended usage of the computer how high is the risk
of repartioning later.
E.g. for a development workstation 10 GB for /usr was to small at
Debian Sarge times, because of many large packages installed.
Also there was a need to repartition and reinstall my 5 years old
netbook (dual boot) to have all in one partition of 60 GB.
If you install on software-RAID, then /boot should have its own
partition like this server:
root@xen07:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv_root
92G 1.8G 86G 3% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 3.5G 172K 3.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 472M 42M 407M 10% /boot
This is a XEN-host with 2 x 1 TB disks in RAID-1, with LVM. The
virtual machines each have swap + root like this:
root@dev:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2 197G 22G 166G 12% /
tmpfs 1023M 0 1023M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 988M 32K 988M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1023M 4.0K 1023M 1% /dev/shm
Helmut Wollmersdorfer
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