[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> Any suggestions on how large to create my partitions based on the M> following usage: ... M> I'm concerned about root. M> On my first test installation under Red Hat 6 months ago I only had X, M> KDE and Netscape and whatever Red Hat insatlls by default with the M> following partitions: / 100MB, /home 100 MB,/user 250,swap 50MB.
With that setup (Netscape, KDE/GNOME, X, WordPerfect, ...) you'll almost definitely need a decent bit more than 500MB for your system. If you're that limited on space, one big partition might be the way to go. My recommendations: Swap: "Big enough". You probably want memory+swap to be *at least* 64MB, but more doesn't hurt. /var (could combine with /): At least 100MB, 200MB is a good minimum if you have the space. More space is good, especially if you're going to track the unstable branch; Debian packages you download will wind up here, along with some local state and your Apache root. /home: As much as you need, probably at least 50-100MB. I tend to keep ~80MB of mail around, plus some personal stuff. If you're the only user on your system, you can get away with skimping on /home and putting "your" stuff elsewhere. /usr: Yeah, as much as you can get. Given your list of stuff, I'd say 500+ MB. /: If you've split off all three of /var, /home, and /usr, then / can be small (like 32MB). You'll probably want to symlink /tmp to somewhere, though. I also have /usr/local on a separate partition. If I wanted to, I could mount /usr read-only for a small feeling of extra security. Also, this is spread out over 2 disks (used to be 3). Having /home on its own partition is really useful if you ever want to reinstall or use two different Linuces side by side. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell