On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote: > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would > appreciate thoughts and guidence.
I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's a waste of space or time on a desktop. On a server it sure is a good thing. I now have /boot 100 MB, / 30 GB (too big, but able to compile mozilla and openoffice.org and enough for a long time :), and /home (for backup/reinstall convenience) 90GB, Swap 1 GB (because it doesn't matter) > /boot 20meg Too small if you're into testing lots of different kernel sources, otherwise ok. Would make it 50 though just to be on the save side > / 4gig ???? If you have /home, /var, /usr and /tmp on their own partitions, you won't need more than 100 MB for /. I've checked with du -ch: Dir Size for me [MB] ---------------------------------------- /bin 5 /dev 0 (run devfs, is a virtual fs) /etc 14 /lib 16 /proc 0, virtual /root 2.8 (config files, should be smaller since most are from X apps) /sbin 4.6 No big dirs. You should also consider making /opt a link to /usr/opt if some package should need it > /var 8gig ??? Are you a news server? Generally, /var on its own partition is a hassle, you either waste space most of the time, or run out of space when dist-upgrading the whole distro (downloaded packages go there). I have found 500 MB enough, but even this is too much most of the time. I currently have 131 MB in /var, but I use mailspools in $HOME > /tmp 2gig Again a hassle, mostly you waste space, but then there is this odd print job or reaaaaallly big image in gimp. Again, why bother? > /usr 5gig OK > /swap ??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it should equal the ram up to > 256meg Difficult to say. In the beginning of kernel 2.4, the original vm wanted RAM x 2 for swap, but most non-kernel people found out only when the discussions around the different vm implementations and ripping out the old vm boiled up. I was recently able to fill 256 RAM and 500 swap easily when I ran 2 different gnome dev versions complete with memory leaks for 2 users on 2 displays simultaniously. Personally I have settled on the "what the heck, disk is cheap" approach and now run 512 RAM + 1 GB swap. > /home what ever is left I'd say as much as possible without sacrificing proper system function. Isn't running a system about doing stuff as user? (I know, not for everybody, but still) Cheers, M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
