On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 04:41, Marco Cecconi wrote: > Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is > the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in > particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different > functionalities as much as possible (eg. /boot, /, /var, /home all on > different partitions). This makes sense since the machines are servers. > What is your experience regarding workstations? Is there any advantage > or disadvantage in using a simpler partitioning (eg. only /boot and /)?
The whole subject is less critical now, but here's how I do it: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 7874560 150520 7324024 3% / /dev/hda2 46668 2871 41388 7% /boot /dev/hda5 7874528 1770332 5704180 24% /usr /dev/hda6 7874528 708628 6765884 10% /var /dev/hda7 7874528 668568 6805944 9% /home /dev/hda8 86573816 862620 81313404 2% /data I could (and probably should) have combined / and /usr, but this way, /tmp has almost 8GB to play with. The *most*critical* things, IMO, though, is to put /home and /data on their own partitions, so that if you do have to reinstall, you won't wipe out your data. You know, I wonder if it wouldn't be useful to put /etc in it's own partition, too? With Gnome 2.4 & CUPS, my /etc is 25MB, so a 50MB partition, like I did for /boot, would be all you'd need, I think. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore -> Internet Sun Microsystems -> Clusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]