On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:55:19 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > hi ya hershel > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > > I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > > > Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 > > AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz > > have lots of nice fans ... at least 3 chassis fans > 2 by the cpu/power pully and add one or tw more fans in the front > of the (midtwoer) case .._silent!_ fans. > > My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with > > Windows 2000. I need the Windows system, at least for now, for work > > purposes. I also may want to store images in a shareable location > > and I presently have 5Gigs of digital pictures on this Win 2K > > machine. > > > > My thoughts are to set up: > > > > 10G Windows 2K system and software > > 10G Shareable data (FAT?) > > i'd look at how much windoze disk you're using now > > linux can read/write windoze files ( msdos, vfat ) directly > - do NOT use linux to edit/delete ntfs files on windoze > > - ie.. if you're using vfat, you wont need the 10G of shared > space > > - be sure that window is loaded into /dev/hda1 > > - make a windoze boot floppy .. !!!! it will save your butt one day > make a dos boot floppy too ( for doing "fdisk /mbr" ) > > > For the rest, however, I am uncertain. The machine has 256M DDR and > > I have 512M more coming so I plan to make a 768M swap partition. > > Beyond that, the web pages I have found discuss mostly minimums for > > / /usr /tmp and /home. I also read that more than 6Gig can create > > problems for ext2 partitions. So at this point, I'm between those > > minimums and 6Gig. :) > > if it was my machine ... > > 10GB /windows /dev/hda1 - find out how much space you're > using now and double it?? ..leave it alone, he's gonna _want_ 30GB for linux. _Eventually_. He just needs to experience the why's for himself, as we all do. ;-) > 256MB / /dev/hda2 - keep small as possible > 256MB /tmp /dev/hda3 - keep small as possible > /dev/hda4 extended partition - not for data > 512MB /var /dev/hda5 - keep enough for logs ..ditto for /var/log , /var/www is a good place to test and develop your web site buyers stuff, but /var/www/* can also be symlinked from /home/aoga/work/websites/* , myself, I just create new users for everything new I do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kernels$ ll -G /home/ total 92 drwxr-xr-x 52 arnt 8192 Aug 31 15:20 arnt/ drwxr-xr-x 4 benkesto 4096 Jul 22 00:26 benkestok/ drwxr-xr-x 3 debian 4096 Jun 9 21:39 debian/ drwxr-xr-x 4 fly 4096 Jul 7 17:37 fly/ drwxr-xr-x 3 gas 4096 Jun 9 21:39 gas/ drwxr-xr-x 42 ipcop 4096 Jun 10 21:03 ipcop/ drwxr-xr-x 3 job 4096 Jun 9 21:39 job/ drwxr-xr-x 3 knoppix 4096 Aug 16 10:51 knoppix/ drwx------ 2 root 16384 Jun 9 14:41 lost+found/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mdk 4096 Jun 9 21:39 mdk/ drwxr-xr-x 3 njus 4096 Jun 9 21:39 njus/ drwxr-xr-x 10 ogg 4096 Jun 10 20:32 ogg/ drwxr-xr-x 3 pol 4096 Jun 9 21:39 pol/ drwxr-xr-x 3 rh 4096 Jun 9 21:39 rh/ drwxr-xr-x 3 sa 4096 Jun 11 18:15 sa/ drwxr-xr-x 9 support 4096 Jun 22 23:15 support/ drwxr-xr-x 3 wifi 4096 Jun 9 21:39 wifi/ drwxr-xr-x 13 xarnt 4096 Jun 10 20:05 xarnt/ drwxr-xr-x 4 zulu 4096 Jul 18 03:33 zulu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kernels$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda10 251M 129M 109M 55% / /dev/hda1 45M 21M 22M 48% /boot /dev/hda6 9.8G 34M 9.2G 1% /tmp /dev/hda7 20G 16G 3.6G 81% /var /dev/hda11 25G 23G 1.4G 94% /home /dev/hda9 9.8G 2.1G 7.2G 23% /usr /dev/hda8 9.8G 2.8G 6.5G 30% /usr/local /dev/hdb5 73G 54G 15G 78% /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kernels$ > 2048GB /usr /dev/hda6 - keep enough to load new code ..I would say 3 G, and 1 G for /usr/local , but YMMV. > 512MB <swap> /dev/hda7 - add memory if you need more mem ..depends on what you do, I use 2 times the maximum supportable by the main system board, to minimize down time on upgrades. > rest /home /dev/hda8 --- maximum space for you --- > > > move /var/www to /home/www so that user data is separate from system > /var files ...and symlink'em... ;-) > move /usr/local to /home/local to keep user stuff away from system > stuff ..puts everything in one boat, ok, _not_ how I do things. ;-) ..keep an eye out for journal failures with 'cat /proc/mounts \ |grep " ro ", you in _some_ cases want a prompt reboot and fsck, both Debian and Red Hat will merrily keep you unaware of it on 'mount -v | grep ro ', for _days_. ..in /etc/fstab, some ext3fs'es has "errors=remount-ro" in the options column, consider "errors=panic" for important stuff you dont wanna lose,say isp traffic logs etc, and toss in "panic=20" or some such in your bootloader setup. > for various flavors of partition schemes and reasoning > http://www.Linux-1U.net/Partitions > > c ya > alvin > > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
