Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 20:15 +0000 schrieb Nuno Magalhães: > Greetings. > > Yes, it's a religous question but i'll try to lmit it. [...] > 1) What's with those two tmpfs? Are (both) really necessary? Isn't swap > enough?
"/lib/init/rw" is used by the initscripts, i guess it is necessary. "/dev/shm" is your shared memory. See http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/what-is-devshm-and-its-practical-usage.html > /mnt/win64 is a FAT32 that will become ext3, it has most of my > personal stuff. I want to leave most of the disk for my /home and [...] > Usually i use / and /home only. This is a 160GB Maxtor drive. > 2) How about 20GB for / and everything else for /home? What about 500 MB for "/boot". Your kernel-images (and _only_ your kernel-images!) will go there. The rest is for swap and "/". So you don't have to worry about not being able to boot caused by a full disk ... :) > 3) is it worth it to separate /var and /usr on a desktop system? Why? > Why not? What sizes? Well, yes and no, it depends on your needs.... ;) But as you said: most of the things on your hd are obviously not part of the linux-disto, so I guess your biggest need is free diskspace for your "/home". So: put everything in one big partition (except "/boot"), and you don't have to worry about free-space and partitition-sizes. Or, if you can afford it: get yourself one or more external HDs and use them like cds... ;-) HTH, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]