Incoming from Ritesh Raj Sarraf: > > I've just purchased a laptop and will install debian onto it. I just > wanted your generous suggestions regarding installation. > > I am planning to use the following partition structure: > > /boot -- 150mb > /home -- 10GB > /usr -- 15GB > /usr/local -- 5GB
My /boot has 6.1 Mb used. Personally, I think /boot as a separate ptn is unnecessary, but it is nice to not have to mount it at all (defence against LKM's?). > I don't think having /tmp, /var etc on a laptop would be much When you do "apt-get upgrade", the packages are downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives. If there isn't enough space there, you'll have to do something creative (ln -s /var/cache/apt/archives /somewhere/with/space). Others insist a separate /tmp is a good security measure or system management feature. I don't know, but they're probably correct. I would suggest the following: / 200 Mb /usr as much as you can spare /var 1 Gb (that's possibly excessive) /home whatever's left over (mine's 1 Gb, 300 Mb used) /opt [if you use that sort of thing] 500 Mb? /scratch useful for the "ln -s ..." trick above -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]