On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > I would suggest simply creating a swap partition of about 128MB and put > the rest as one partition to start with. Play with Linux for about 6 > months, then look to see how much space you are using in /var and /usr > then back the system up, repartition according to the ratios noted above > and then restore. >
This is a good suggestion, because it can vary a lot. For example my /var is practically empty (maybe 20 megs) and always has been. It fits fine on a 128M partition with the rest of /; then I have /usr, /home, /tmp, and /cvs. /cvs is just another /tmp partition with a new name; these can be handy. Mine is just to hold a bunch of source trees; our university server has /scratch so students have a place to manipulate large quota-exceeding files. /tmp is cluttered with system files and occasionally gets cron-jobbed so you need a separate directory for this kind of thing. >From the start though I'd put /home on a separate partition because you can then reinstall without losing your data and personal configuration. For my single-user system this is the one essential partition. It absolutely depends on how you use your computer. There's no right way. Havoc
